Evidence accumulation in cell populations responsive to faces: An account of generalisation of recognition without mental transformations

Cognition

Volumn 67, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 111-145

  Perrett, D I ^a   Oram, M W ^a   Ashbridge, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cell populations; Face recognition; Mental rotation

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; LEARNING; NERVE CELL; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; REVIEW; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ATTENTION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; GENERALIZATION, STIMULUS; HUMANS; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SIZE PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 0032113482     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-0277(98)00015-8     Document Type: Article

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