Race as a visual feature: Using visual search and perceptual discrimination tasks to understand face categories and the cross-race recognition deficit

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Volumn 129, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 559-574

  Levin, Daniel T ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; RACE; RECOGNITION; VISION;

ADULT; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0034540754     PISSN: 00963445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-3445.129.4.559     Document Type: Article

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