Perceptual adaptation helps us identify faces

Vision Research

Volumn 50, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 963-968

  Rhodes, Gillian ^a   Watson, Tamara L ^b   Jeffery, Linda ^a   Clifford, Colin W G ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Vision Science   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adaptation and aftereffects; Face perception

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASIAN; CAUCASIAN; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; VISUAL ADAPTATION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FACE; HUMANS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 77952010761     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2010.03.003     Document Type: Article

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