Why are moving faces easier to recognize?

Visual Cognition

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 429-442

  Lander, Karen ^a   Chuang, Lewis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MEMORY;

EID: 17144376737     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506280444000382     Document Type: Article

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