Facial expression in nonhuman animals

Emotion Review

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 54-59

  Waller, Bridget M ^a   Micheletta, Jérôme ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

animal signals; communication; evolution; facial displays; multimodality; primates

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872186294     PISSN: 17540739     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1754073912451503     Document Type: Review

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