Where are kin recognition signals in the human face?

Journal of Vision

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2006, Pages

  Dal Martello, Maria F ^a   Maloney, Laurence T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cue combination; Face perception; Kin recognition; Signal detection theory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; CRANIOFACIAL MORPHOLOGY; FACE PROFILE; FAMILY RELATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHOTOGRAPHY; RECALL; SIBLING; SIGNAL DETECTION; VISION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MEMORY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE; FACE; FAMILY; MASK; MOUTH; PATTERN RECOGNITION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ADULT; CUES; EYE; FACE; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASKS; MOUTH; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTOGRAPHY;

EID: 33845436672     PISSN: 15347362     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/6.12.2     Document Type: Article

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