The role of features and configural processing in face-race classification

Vision Research

Volumn 51, Issue 23-24, 2011, Pages 2462-2470

  Zhao, Lun ^a,b   Bentin, Shlomo ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b Beijing Shengkun Yan Lun Technology Co Ltd   (China)

Author keywords

Configural processing; Face perception; Featural processing; Other race faces

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CHINA; CHINESE; CLASSIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ISRAEL; ISRAELI; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OTHER RACE CLASSIFICATION ADVANTAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; RESPONSE TIME; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHINA; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 82455187952     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: 18785646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2011.10.001     Document Type: Article

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