The face-inversion effect can be explained by the capacity limitations of an orientation normalization mechanism

Japanese Psychological Research

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 216-222

  Schwaninger, Adrian ^a,b   Mast, Fred W ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Component and configural processing; Face recognition; Face inversion effect; Featural processing; Mental rotation

Indexed keywords

EID: 27444445997     PISSN: 00215368     EISSN: 14685884     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5884.2005.00290.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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