Hemispheric asymmetry in cross-race face recognition

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1162-1166

  Correll, Joshua ^a   Lemoine, Caroline ^a   Ma, Debbie S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross race recognition; Face recognition; Hemispheric asymmetry

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051884732     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2011.04.001     Document Type: Article

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