Features are Also Important: Contributions of Featural and Configural Processing to Face Recognition

Psychological Science

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 429-433

  Cabeza, Roberto ^a   Kato, Takashi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FACE; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; RECOGNITION; VISION;

ADULT; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0034280147     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9280.00283     Document Type: Article

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