Feature and configuration in face processing: Japanese are more Configural than Americans

Cognitive Science

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 563-574

  Miyamoto, Yuri ^a   Yoshikawa, Sakiko ^b   Kitayama, Shinobu ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Culture; Face perception; Feature based and configuration based processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953067143     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-6709.2010.01163.x     Document Type: Article

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