Learning alters local face space geometry

Vision Research

Volumn 46, Issue 24, 2006, Pages 4143-4151

  Wilson, Hugh R ^a   Diaconescu, Andreea ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Face discrimination; Face recognition; Face space; Learning; Memory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; FACE; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; RECOGNITION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMETRICS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 33749554809     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2006.08.001     Document Type: Article

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