Emotionally expressive faces have shown enhanced detectability over neutral faces, but
little is known about the effect of eye gaze on detecting the presence of emotional faces …

A central question in perception is how stimuli are selected for access to awareness. This
study investigated the impact of emotional meaning on detection of faces using the attention …

When distinguishing whether a face displays a certain emotion, some regions of the face
may contain more useful information than others. Here we ask whether people differentially …

The present study investigated the nature of attention to facial expressions using an
oculomotor capture paradigm. Participants were required to make a speeded saccade …

Gaze direction signals another person's focus of interest. Facial expressions convey
information about their mental state. Appropriate responses to these signals should reflect …

At normal interpersonal distances all features of a face cannot fall within one's fovea
simultaneously. Given that certain facial features are differentially informative of different …

In two experiments, prime face stimuli with an emotional or a neutral expression were
presented individually for 25 to 125 ms, either in foveal or parafoveal vision; following a …

Research has largely neglected the effects of gaze direction cues on the perception of facial
expressions of emotion. It was hypothesized that when gaze direction matches the …

Gaze direction and emotion expression are salient facial features that facilitate social
interactions. Previous studies addressed how gaze direction influences the evaluation and …

In this study, the authors investigated how salient visual features capture attention and
facilitate detection of emotional facial expressions. In a visual search task, a target emotional …