Holistic processing is not correlated with face-identification accuracy

Psychological Science

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 38-43

  Konar, Yaroslav ^a   Bennett, Patrick J ^a,b   Sekuler, Allison B ^a,b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Composite face effect; Configural processing; Face identification; Face perception; Holistic processing

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION DISORDER; REACTION TIME; RECALL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL DISTORTION; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77951282660     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797609356508     Document Type: Article

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