Perception of global facial geometry in the inversion effect and prosopagnosia

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1703-1711

  Barton, Jason J S ^a,b   Zhao, Jingher ^a   Keenan, Julian P ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

Configuration; Face inversion; Face perception; Prosopagnosia; Spatial relation

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRIGHTNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EYE COLOR; EYE MOVEMENT; FACE PROFILE; FEMALE; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOUTH; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PROSOPAGNOSIA; SPATIAL MEMORY;

EID: 0041843689     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(03)00115-5     Document Type: Article

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