Configural processing at birth: Evidence for perceptual organisation

Perception

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 355-372

  Farroni, Teresa ^a   Valenza, Eloisa ^a   Simion, Francesca ^a   Umiltà, Carlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HABITUATION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NEWBORN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; VISION;

DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL CLOSURE; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 0033660464     PISSN: 03010066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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