The role of gaze in the processing of emotional facial expressions

Emotion Review

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 36-40

  Rigato, Silvia ^a   Farroni, Teresa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

emotion perception; gaze direction; infants; newborns; shared signal hypothesis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872173971     PISSN: 17540739     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1754073912457225     Document Type: Review

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