Configural face encoding and spatial frequency information

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 65, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1078-1093

  Boutet, Isabelle ^a   Collin, Charles ^b   Faubert, Jocelyn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

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EID: 0347592204     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03194835     Document Type: Article

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