The prototype effect revisited: Evidence for an abstract feature model of face recognition

Journal of Vision

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Wallis, Guy ^a   Siebeck, Ulrike E ^a   Swann, Kellie ^a   Blanz, Volker ^b   Bülthoff, Heinrich H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Configural processing; Face recognition; Holistic processing; Object recognition; Prototype effect; View based recognition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 40949166250     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/8.3.20     Document Type: Article

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