The time course of face matching by internal and external features: Effects of context and inversion

Vision Research

Volumn 50, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 1598-1611

  Meinhardt Injac, Bozana ^a   Persike, Malte ^b   Meinhardt, Günter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Face inversion effect; Face perception; Holistic processing; Internal and external features

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FACIES; GAZE; HOLISTIC CARE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 77954315741     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2010.05.018     Document Type: Article

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