The effects of face inversion and contrast-reversal on efficiency and internal noise

Vision Research

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1084-1095

  Gaspar, Carl M ^a   Bennett, Patrick J ^a,b   Sekuler, Allison B ^a,b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Efficiency; Face perception; Inversion effect; Masking; Noise

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION;

ADULT; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; ROTATION; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 41049117734     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2007.12.014     Document Type: Article

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