Spatial frequency tuning of upright and inverted face identification

Vision Research

Volumn 48, Issue 28, 2008, Pages 2817-2826

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Channels; Face perception; Identification; Inversion effect; Masking; Noise; Spatial frequency

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FACE; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL DISTORTION; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SENSORY THRESHOLDS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 55649110258     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2008.09.015     Document Type: Article

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