Making eye contact without awareness

Cognition

Volumn 143, Issue , 2015, Pages 108-114

  Rothkirch, Marcus ^a   Madipakkam, Apoorva Rajiv ^a   Rehn, Erik ^a,b   Sterzer, Philipp ^a,b  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b BERNSTEIN CENTER FOR COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Eye movements; Face perception; Gaze direction; Social cognition; Unconscious processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; EYE; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; FORCED CHOICE METHOD; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; ATTENTION; EYE FIXATION; FACE; PERCEPTION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; VISION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; FACE; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84933502449     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2015.06.012     Document Type: Article

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