Configural masking of faces: Evidence for high-level interactions in face perception

Vision Research

Volumn 45, Issue 17, 2005, Pages 2287-2297

  Loffler, Gunter ^a   Gordon, Gael E ^a   Wilkinson, Frances ^b   Goren, Deborah ^b   Wilson, Hugh R ^b  

^a GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Face perception; Masking; Psychophysics; Temporal dynamics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FACE PERCEPTION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISUAL STIMULATION;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FACE; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 19944369489     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2005.02.009     Document Type: Article

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