Should we reject the expertise hypothesis?

Cognition

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 322-330

  Gauthier, Isabel ^a   Bukach, Cindy ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Composite; Configural; Expertise; Faces; Holistic

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; EXPERIENCE; FACE; HYPOTHESIS; MENTAL FUNCTION; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 33847155493     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2006.05.003     Document Type: Note

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