The surprisingly high human efficiency at learning to recognize faces

Vision Research

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 301-314

  Peterson, Matthew F ^a   Abbey, Craig K ^a   Eckstein, Miguel P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Absolute efficiency; Face recognition; Ideal observer; Perceptual learning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FACIES; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMETRICS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 59349100517     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2008.10.014     Document Type: Article

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