How accurately do young children and adults discriminate the gender of natural faces?

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 654-664

  Sugimura, Tomoko ^a  

^a FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; COGNITION; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGY; RECOGNITION; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS; VISION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOLOGY; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEX FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33749064732     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/PMS.102.3.654-664     Document Type: Article

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