Is it an animal? Is it a human face? Fast processing in upright and inverted natural scenes

Journal of Vision

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 440-455

  Rousselet, Guillaume A ^a   Macé, Marc J M ^a   Fabre Thorpe, Michèle ^a  

^a Brain and Cognition Research Center in Toulouse   (France)

Author keywords

Animals and animal faces; Configural processing; Human faces; Human performance; Inversion effect; Mental rotation; Natural scenes; Rapid visual categorization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; OPTIC TRACT; OPTICAL ROTATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION; ANIMAL; COGNITION; LEARNING; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; ANIMALS; COGNITION; FACE; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; GENERALIZATION, STIMULUS; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; ORIENTATION;

EID: 0141454908     PISSN: 15347362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/3.6.5     Document Type: Article

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