Start position strongly influences fixation patterns during face processing: difficulties with eye movements as a measure of information use.

Fixation patterns are thought to reflect cognitive processing and, thus, index the most informative stimulus features for task performance. During face recognition, initial fixations to the center of the nose have been taken to indicate this location is optimal for information extraction. However, t...

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Main Authors: Joseph Arizpe, Dwight J Kravitz, Galit Yovel, Chris I Baker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3271097?pdf=render