Sensitivity to spatial frequency and orientation content is not specific to face perception

Vision Research

Volumn 49, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 2353-2362

  Williams, N Rankin ^a   Willenbockel, Verena ^b   Gauthier, Isabel ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Face perception; Response bias; Spatial frequency

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; FACE; FEMALE; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 69949186736     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2009.06.019     Document Type: Article

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