Unfamiliar faces are not faces: Evidence from a matching task

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 865-876

  Megreya, Ahmed M ^a   Burton, A Mike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; RECOGNITION; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 33749590002     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03193433     Document Type: Article

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