The gender-specific face after effect is based in retinotopic not spatiotopic coordinates across several natural image transformations

Journal of Vision

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1-17

  Afraz, Arash ^a,c   Cavanagh, Patrick ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Eye movements; Face recognition; Object recognition; Spatial vision

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EYE MOVEMENT; FACE; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HEAD; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA; ROTATION; VISION;

EYE MOVEMENTS; FACE; FEMALE; FIGURAL AFTEREFFECT; GENDER IDENTITY; HEAD; HUMANS; MALE; MOVEMENT; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RETINA; ROTATION; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 70349092294     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/9.10.10     Document Type: Article

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