Activation of face expertise and the inversion effect

Psychological Science

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 12-16

  Ge, Liezhong ^a   Wang, Zhe ^a   McCleery, Joseph P ^b   Lee, Kang ^c  

^a ZHEJIANG SCI TECH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; RECALL; SEMANTICS;

ADULT; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS;

EID: 33645089954     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2005.01658.x     Document Type: Article

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