Why does picture-plane inversion sometimes dissociate perception of features and spacing in faces, and sometimes not? toward a new theory of holistic processing

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 778-797

  Mckone, Elinor ^a   Yovel, Galit ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FACE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; VISION;

FACE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 69249110627     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/PBR.16.5.778     Document Type: Article

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