Face imagery is based on featural representations

Experimental Psychology

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 47-53

  Lobmaier, Janek S ^a   Mast, Fred W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bottom up; Configural information; Face imagery; Featural information; Top down

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTION DISORDER; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; RECALL; VISUAL MEMORY;

ADULT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EIDETIC IMAGERY; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL DISTORTION; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME;

EID: 40549109251     PISSN: 16183169     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1618-3169.55.1.47     Document Type: Article

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