Face Recognition in Young Children: When the Whole is Greater than the Sum of Its Parts

Visual Cognition

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 479-496

  Tanaka, James W ^a   Kay, Joshua B ^a   Grinnell, Eliza ^a   Stansfield, Brent ^a   Szechter, Lisa ^a  

^a OBERLIN COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 0000141434     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/713756795     Document Type: Article

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