The shape of facial features and the spacing among them generate similar inversion effects: A reply to Rossion (2008)

Acta Psychologica

Volumn 132, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 293-299

  Yovel, Galit ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Face inversion effect; Face recognition; Holistic processing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FACE; HUMAN; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; RECOGNITION;

FACE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; ORIENTATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 70349319373     PISSN: 00016918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2009.07.009     Document Type: Article

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