Holistic processing for faces operates over a wide range of sizes but is strongest at identification rather than conversational distances

Vision Research

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 268-283

  McKone, Elinor ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Face recognition; Holistic processing; Human; Psychophysics; Viewing distance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; HOLISTIC CARE; HUMAN; IDENTITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FACE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL DISTORTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58049211795     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2008.10.020     Document Type: Article

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