Perceptual expertise as a shift from strategic interference to automatic holistic processing

Current Directions in Psychological Science

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 129-134

  Richler, Jennifer J ^a   Wong, Yetta K ^b   Gauthier, Isabel ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

expertise; face perception; holistic processing; selective attention

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960260066     PISSN: 09637214     EISSN: 14678721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0963721411402472     Document Type: Article

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