Distinct contributions to facial emotion perception of foveated versus nonfoveated facial features

Emotion Review

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 30-35

  Atkinson, Anthony P ^a   Smithson, Hannah E ^b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

amygdala; attention; emotion perception; eye movements; face perception; magnocellular; peripheral vision

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872200713     PISSN: 17540739     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1754073912457226     Document Type: Review

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