People with Williams syndrome process faces holistically

Cognition

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 11-24

  Tager Flusberg, Helen ^a   Plesa Skwerer, Daniela ^a   Faja, Susan ^a   Joseph, Robert M ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Face recognition; Holistically; Williams syndrome

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; FACE RECOGNITION; NEUROLOGY;

NEUROCOGNITIVE MECHANISM;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY; WILLIAMS BEUREN SYNDROME;

EID: 0043170934     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-0277(03)00049-0     Document Type: Article

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