The roles of visual expertise and visual input in the face inversion effect: Behavioral and neurocomputational evidence

Vision Research

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 703-715

  McCleery, Joseph P ^a   Zhang, Lingyun ^b   Ge, Liezhong ^c   Wang, Zhe ^c   Christiansen, Eric M ^d   Lee, Kang ^e   Cottrell, Garrison W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c ZHEJIANG SCI TECH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d SWARTHMORE COLLEGE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chinese characters; Configural processing; Face processing; Featural processing; Neural network models; Neurocomputational models; Visual discrimination; Visual expertise

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FACE; HUMAN; IMAGE DISPLAY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL AID; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADULT; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS;

EID: 39149089640     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2007.11.025     Document Type: Article

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