Mapping attractor fields in face space: The atypicality bias in face recognition

Cognition

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 199-220

  Tanaka, James ^a   Giles, Michael ^a   Kremen, Sarah ^b   Simon, Valerie ^c  

^a OBERLIN COLLEGE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attractor field; Atypicality bias; Face recognition; Memory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; FACE; HUMAN; MEMORY; PHYSIOLOGY;

FACE; HUMANS; MEMORY; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER);

EID: 0032172541     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0010-0277(98)00048-1     Document Type: Article

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