Visual search for facial expressions of emotions: a comparison of dynamic and static faces.

@article{Horstmann2009VisualSF,
  title={Visual search for facial expressions of emotions: a comparison of dynamic and static faces.},
  author={Gernot Horstmann and Ulrich Ansorge},
  journal={Emotion},
  year={2009},
  volume={9 1},
  pages={
          29-38
        }
}
A number of past studies have used the visual search paradigm to examine whether certain aspects of emotional faces are processed preattentively and can thus be used to guide attention. All these studies presented static depictions of facial prototypes. Emotional expressions conveyed by the movement patterns of the face have never been examined for their preattentive effect. The present study presented for the first time dynamic facial expressions in a visual search paradigm. Experiment 1… 
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