Attention orienting by gaze and facial expressions across development

Emotion

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 397-408

  Neath, Karly ^a   Nilsen, Elizabeth S ^a   Gittsovich, Katarzyna ^a   Itier, Roxane J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Development; Facial expressions; Gaze orienting; Theory of mind

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; CHILD; COGNITION; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; RECOGNITION; RESPONSE TIME; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL COGNITION; SOCIAL STATUS; THEORY OF MIND;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; THEORY OF MIND; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84878986877     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0030463     Document Type: Article

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