Can the eyes reveal a person's emotions? Biasing role of the mouth expression

Motivation and Emotion

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 202-211

  Calvo, Manuel G ^a   Fernández Martín, Andrés ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Facial expression; Projection; Recognition; Saliency; Smile

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874324460     PISSN: 01467239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11031-012-9298-1     Document Type: Article

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