Becoming a 'Greeble' expert: Exploring mechanisms for face recognition

Vision Research

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1673-1682

  Gauthier, Isabel ^a   Tarr, Michael J ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Configural encoding; Face recognition; Object categorization; Perceptual expertise

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CRANIOFACIAL MORPHOLOGY; FACE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SPATIAL ORIENTATION;

DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FACE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; LEARNING; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0030979035     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(96)00286-6     Document Type: Article

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