A smile biases the recognition of eye expressions: Configural projection from a salient mouth

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1159-1181

  Calvo, Manuel G ^a   Fernández Martín, Andrés ^a   Nummenmaa, Lauri ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^c TURKU PET CENTRE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Configural; Facial expression; Projection; Recognition; Saliency; Smile

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBABILITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; CUES; EYE MOVEMENTS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROBABILITY; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SMILING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84878630572     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2012.732586     Document Type: Article

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