Evidence for holistic processing of facial age

Visual Cognition

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 585-615

  Hole, Graham ^a   George, Patricia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Age perception; Chimeric faces; Composite face effect; Configural processing; Face perception; Holistic processing

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGE; AGE DETERMINATION; ARTICLE; COMPOSITE FACE EFFECT; COMPOSITE MATERIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; METHODOLOGY; OBSERVER BIAS; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SKIN SURFACE; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

EID: 79958830615     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: 14640716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506285.2011.562076     Document Type: Article

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