My face through the looking-glass: The effect of mirror reversal on reflection size estimation

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1452-1459

  Dieguez, Sebastian ^a   Scherer, Jakob ^b   Blanke, Olaf ^a,c  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Face perception; Familiarity; Mirrors; Self recognition; Size estimation; Visual cognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; FACIES; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IDENTITY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; SELF CONCEPT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; FACE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SIZE PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80054864018     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2011.06.003     Document Type: Article

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