Categorical perception occurs in newly learned faces, other-race faces, and inverted faces

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 386-401

  Levin, Daniel T ^a   Beale, James M ^b  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CAUCASIAN; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RECALL;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0034132521     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03205558     Document Type: Article

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