Face, Body, and Center of Gravity Mediate Person Detection in Natural Scenes

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1477-1485

  Bindemann, Markus ^a,b   Scheepers, Christoph ^a   Ferguson, Heather J ^c   Burton, A Mike ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Body; Center of gravity; Face; Person detection; Scenes

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REACTION TIME; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SEMANTICS; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FACE; FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SERIAL LEARNING; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 78650121942     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0019057     Document Type: Article

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