An own-race advantage for components as well as configurations in face recognition

Cognition

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 1017-1027

  Hayward, William G ^a   Rhodes, Gillian ^b   Schwaninger, Adrian ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Component processing; Configural processing; Face processing; Face recognition; Other race effect; Own race advantage

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CAUCASIAN; CHINESE; FACE; FEMALE; HONG KONG; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LATENT PERIOD; LEARNING; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; RECOGNITION; RESPONSE TIME; SIGNAL DETECTION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 37249001284     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2007.04.002     Document Type: Article

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