Always on my mind?: recognition of attractive faces may not depend on attention

Little research has examined what happens to attention and memory as a whole when humans see someone attractive. Hence, we investigated whether attractive stimuli gather more attention and are better remembered than unattractive stimuli. Participants took part in an attention task in which matrices...

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Main Author: Silva, André (author)
Other Authors: Macedo, António Filipe (author), Albuquerque, Pedro Barbas (author), Silva, Joana Rodrigues Arantes da (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2016
Subjects:
Attention
Memory
Recognition
Attractiveness
Eye tracking
Eye-gaze
Evolutionary psychology
Social Sciences
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1822/51855
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/51855

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http://hdl.handle.net/1822/51855

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