Does Face Inversion Change Spatial Frequency Tuning?

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 122-135

  Willenbockel, Verena ^a   Fiset, Daniel ^a   Chauvin, Alan ^b   Blais, Caroline ^c   Arguin, Martin ^c   Tanaka, James W ^a   Bub, Daniel N ^a   Gosselin, Frédéric ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b Univ Lille   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

face perception; identification; inversion effect; spatial frequency

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PERCEPTION; REACTION TIME; VISION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CUES; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 76049110562     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0016465     Document Type: Article

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