Seeing faces as objects: No face inversion effect with geometrical discrimination

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 504-520

  Pallett, Pamela M ^a   MacLeod, Donald I A ^b  

^a Dartmouth College ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Face perception; Face recognition; Visual memory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FACE; HUMAN; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTION DISORDER; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RECOGNITION;

DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FACE; HUMANS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL DISTORTION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SIZE PERCEPTION;

EID: 79951957626     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-010-0033-2     Document Type: Article

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