Comparing the effect of humanoid and human face for the spatial orientation of attention

Frontiers in Neurorobotics

Volumn 7, Issue SEP, 2013, Pages

  Chaminade, Thierry ^a   Okka, Maria M ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Attention; Humanoid robot; Posner cuing task; Reaction time; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; FACE; GAZE; HEAD; HUMAN; ROBOTICS; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; STIMULUS; VALIDITY;

EID: 84904902240     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbot.2013.00012     Document Type: Article

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