A critical band of phase alignment for discrimination but not recognition of human faces

Vision Research

Volumn 48, Issue 25, 2008, Pages 2523-2536

  Hansen, Bruce C ^a,b   Farivar, Reza ^b   Thompson, Benjamin ^b   Hess, Robert F ^b  

^a Assistant Professor in the University Libraries   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Face discrimination; Face frequency; Face recognition; Fourier filtering; Spatial frequency; Spatial phase alignment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FACE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; PERCEPTUAL DISTORTION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 54849433770     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2008.08.016     Document Type: Article

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