Facial closure: Interrelationship with facial discrimination, other closure tests, and subjective contour illusions

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 158-163

  Wasserstein, Jeanette ^a,e   Barr, William B ^b   Zappulla, Russ ^c   Rock, Donald ^d  

^a Mt Sinai School of Medicine   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NEW JERSEY NEUROSCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE   (United States)

^e NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anomalous contour illusions; Gestalt Completion Tests; Subjective contour illusions

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EDUCATION; FACE; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MOONEY CLOSURE FACES TEST; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PERCEPTION; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; VISION;

EID: 0345687870     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2003.07.003     Document Type: Article

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