Recognising faces seen alone or with others: When two heads are worse than one

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 957-972

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FACIES; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE DISPLAY; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SEQUENTIAL ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOLUNTEER;

EID: 33751063988     PISSN: 08884080     EISSN: 10990720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acp.1243     Document Type: Article

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