Specialized face perception mechanisms extract both part and spacing information: Evidence from developmental prosopagnosia

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 580-593

  Yovel, Galit ^a,c   Duchaine, Brad ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROSOPAGNOSIA; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 33646798459     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2006.18.4.580     Document Type: Article

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