Decoding facial blends of emotion: Visual field, attentional and hemispheric biases

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 252-261

  Ross, Elliott D ^a   Shayya, Luay ^a   Champlain, Amanda ^a   Monnot, Marilee ^a   Prodan, Calin I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Conscious; Display rules; Facial blends of emotion; Facial expressions; Perception; Primary emotions; Social emotions; Subconscious; Visual field

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; GAZE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VISUAL FIELD;

ATTENTION; CATHODE RAY TUBE; CONSCIOUS; CRT; DISPLAY RULES; FACIAL BLENDS OF EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSIONS; M; MEAN; PERCEPTION; PRIMARY EMOTIONS; SD; SEM; SOCIAL EMOTIONS; STANDARD DEVIATION; STANDARD ERROR OF THE MEAN; SUBCONSCIOUS; VISUAL FIELD;

ADULT; ATTENTION; EMOTIONS; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; VISUAL FIELDS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84884936337     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2013.09.001     Document Type: Article

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