Are Faces Perceived as Configurations More By Adults than by Children?

Visual Cognition

Volumn 1, Issue 2-3, 1994, Pages 253-274

  Carey, Susan ^a   Diamond, Rhea ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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EID: 58249129934     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: 14640716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506289408402302     Document Type: Article

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