Natural experience acquired in adulthood enhances holistic processing of other-age faces

Visual Cognition

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 11-25

  Kuefner, Dana ^a   Cassia, Viola Macchi ^b   Vescovo, Elena ^b   Picozzi, Marta ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Composite effect; Experience; Face age; Face recognition; Holistic processing

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ADULTHOOD; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING; FACE ASYMMETRY; FACE PROFILE; FACIES; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEACHER; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 77449100350     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: 14640716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506280802396507     Document Type: Article

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