Attention to upside-down faces: An exception to the inversion effect

Vision Research

Volumn 48, Issue 25, 2008, Pages 2555-2561

  Bindemann, Markus ^a   Burton, A Mike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Detection; Face; Inversion

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; VISION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; CUES; FACE; HUMANS; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

EID: 54849425129     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2008.09.001     Document Type: Article

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