Expertise increases the functional overlap between face and object perception

Cognition

Volumn 117, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 355-360

  McKeeff, Thomas J ^a   McGugin, Rankin W ^b   Tong, Frank ^b   Gauthier, Isabel ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Competition; Expertise; Face; Holistic processing; Interference; Object recognition; RSVP

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPETITION; COST; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESSING; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

ADULT; AUTOMOBILES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FACE; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78049393562     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2010.09.002     Document Type: Article

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