What is "Special" about Face Perception?

Psychological Review

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 482-498

  Farah, Martha J ^a   Wilson, Kevin D ^b   Drain, Maxwell ^b   Tanaka, James N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; FACE; HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISION;

FACE; HUMANS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0032116793     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0033-295X.105.3.482     Document Type: Article

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