Seeing the Mean: Ensemble Coding for Sets of Faces

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 718-734

  Haberman, Jason ^a   Whitney, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

face recognition; perception; set perception; summary statistics; visual search

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

ADULT; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; GENERALIZATION, STIMULUS; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SERIAL LEARNING; SET (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 67549144780     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0013899     Document Type: Article

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