Not All Faces Are Processed Equally: Evidence for Featural Rather Than Holistic Processing of One's Own Face in a Face-Imaging Task

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 499-508

  Greenberg, Seth N ^a   Goshen Gottstein, Yonatan ^b  

^a CARLETON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

cognition; expertise; face processing; feature holistic processing; processing of own face

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; FACE; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION;

ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FACE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 65349103700     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0014640     Document Type: Article

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