Discriminating grotesque from typical faces: Evidence from the thatcher illusion

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Donnelly, Nick ^a   Zürcher, Nicole R ^b   Cornes, Katherine ^a   Snyder, Josh ^c   Naik, Paulami ^c   Hadwin, Julie ^a   Hadjikhani, Nouchine ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FACE; FEMALE; FORCED CHOICE METHOD; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; RESPONSE TIME; SOCIAL ASPECT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; THATCHER ILLUSION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL ILLUSION; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; ILLUSION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION;

ADULT; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FACE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMANS; ILLUSIONS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 80052335514     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0023340     Document Type: Article

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