Configural and featural processing in humans with congenital prosopagnosia

Advances in Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 23-34

  Lobmaier, Janek S ^a,b   Bölte, Jens ^c   Mast, Fred W ^b   Dobel, Christian ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Face perception; Object perception; Prosopagnosia; Visual cognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955796675     PISSN: 18951171     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/v10053-008-0074-4     Document Type: Article

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