Local global processing biases fail to influence face, object, and word recognition

Visual Cognition

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 710-740

  Lawson, Rebecca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACIES; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION; RELIABILITY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 34547546701     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: 14640716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506280601112519     Document Type: Article

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