Priming global and local processing of composite faces: Revisiting the processing-bias effect on face perception

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1477-1486

  Gao, Zaifeng ^a   Flevaris, Anastasia V ^b   Robertson, Lynn C ^b   Bentin, Shlomo ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Composite face illusion; Face perception; Global processing; Holistic perception; Local processing; Navon letter

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FACE; FEMALE; GESTALT THERAPY; HUMAN; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; REACTION TIME; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RECOGNITION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VISUAL ILLUSION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FACE; FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; GESTALT THEORY; HUMANS; MALE; OPTICAL ILLUSIONS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIZE PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79959187667     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-011-0109-7     Document Type: Article

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