Does matching of internal and external facial features depend on orientation and viewpoint?

Acta Psychologica

Volumn 132, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 267-278

  Meinhardt Injac, Bozana ^a   Meinhardt, Günter ^b   Schwaninger, Adrian ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c University of Applied Sciences   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

External features; Facial configuration; Internal features; Inversion; Viewpoint

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FACE; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION; VISUAL FIELD;

ADULT; FACE; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL FIELDS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349332458     PISSN: 00016918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2009.07.011     Document Type: Article

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