The composite task reveals stronger holistic processing in children than adults for child faces

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Susilo, Tirta ^a   Crookes, Kate ^a   McKone, Elinor ^a   Turner, Hannah ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; RECOGNITION; SEX DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOSTIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; FACE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 68149141670     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0006460     Document Type: Article

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