Orientation tuning of human face processing estimated by contrast matching in transparency displays

Vision Research

Volumn 46, Issue 13, 2006, Pages 2102-2109

  Martini, Paolo ^a   McKone, Elinor ^b   Nakayama, Ken ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Configural processing; Contrast matching; Holistic processing; Human face processing; Orientation tuning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ILLUMINATION; IMAGE DISPLAY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FACE; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL DISTORTION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 33644820203     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2005.11.014     Document Type: Article

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