Differences between perception of human faces and body shapes: Evidence from the composite illusion

Vision Research

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 195-202

  Bauser, Denise A Soria ^a   Suchan, Boris ^a   Daum, Irene ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alignment; Body perception; Configural processing; Faces; Holistic processing; Inversion effect

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY BUILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FACE PROFILE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BODY SIZE; FACE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MALE; OPTICAL ILLUSIONS; PHOTOGRAPHY; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650307915     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2010.11.007     Document Type: Article

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