Perceptual learning modifies inversion effects for faces and textures

Vision Research

Volumn 49, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 2273-2284

  Hussain, Zahra ^a   Sekuler, Allison B ^a,b   Bennett, Patrick J ^a,b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Configural; Expertise; Face identification; Face inversion effect; Familiarity; Generalization; Orientation; Perceptual learning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACIES; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE DISPLAY; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FACE; FEMALE; GENERALIZATION, RESPONSE; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

EID: 68649112524     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2009.06.014     Document Type: Article

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