Putting culture under the 'Spotlight' reveals universal information use for face recognition

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Caldara, Roberto ^a   Zhou, Xinyue ^b   Miellet, Sébastien ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CAUCASIAN; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNIC GROUP; EYE MOVEMENT; FACE; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURE; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EYE MOVEMENTS; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 77954503247     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009708     Document Type: Article

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