A strong role for nature in face recognition

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 4795-4796

  McKone, Elinor ^a   Palermo, Romina ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIZYGOTIC TWINS; FACE; HERITABILITY; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

COGNITION; FACE; HUMANS; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; TWINS;

EID: 77950394023     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1000567107     Document Type: Note

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