The Effects of Face Inversion on the Perception of Long-Range and Local Spatial Relations in Eye and Mouth Configuration

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1129-1135

  Sekunova, Alla ^a   Barton, Jason J S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b Department of Medicine ^*

Author keywords

configuration; expert processing; face inversion; face recognition; holistic

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EYE; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOUTH; PATTERN RECOGNITION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; EYE; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MOUTH; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 54949093921     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.34.5.1129     Document Type: Article

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