Inferring social attributes from different face regions: Evidence for holistic processing

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 751-766

  Santos, Isabel M ^a   Young, Andrew W ^b  

^a Campus Universitário de Santiago   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Face perception; Facial features; Holistic processing; Social judgements

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; STUDENT; UNIVERSITY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EMOTIONS; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; STUDENTS; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 79953676282     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2010.519779     Document Type: Article

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