The deleterious effect of contrast reversal on recognition is unique to faces, not objects

Vision Research

Volumn 47, Issue 16, 2007, Pages 2134-2142

  Nederhouser, Marissa ^a   Yue, Xiaomin ^a   Mangini, Michael C ^b   Biederman, Irving ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Blob discrimination; Contrast reversal; Face recognition; Object recognition; Perceptual expertise

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE DISPLAY; MALE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; VISUAL ADAPTATION;

ADULT; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CUES; FACE; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; LIGHTING; MALE; PERCEPTUAL DISTORTION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 34447313442     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2007.04.007     Document Type: Article

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