Utilisation of spatial frequency information in face search

Vision Research

Volumn 43, Issue 24, 2003, Pages 2505-2515

  Ojanpää, Helena ^a,b   Näsänen, Risto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

Author keywords

Eye movements; Face identification; Face recognition; Fourier phase randomisation; Perceptual span; Scale invariance; Spatial frequency; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FACE RECOGNITION; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; RECOGNITION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EYE MOVEMENT; FACE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; EYE MOVEMENTS; FACE; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0642372452     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(03)00459-0     Document Type: Article

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