The evidence rejects the expertise hypothesis: Reply to Gauthier & Bukach

Cognition

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 331-336

  McKone, Elinor ^a   Robbins, Rachel ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Configural; Expertise hypothesis; Face recognition; Holistic

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; EXPERIENCE; FACE; HYPOTHESIS; MENTAL FUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 33847134788     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2006.05.014     Document Type: Note

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