Developmental changes in the microgenesis of face perception revealed by effects of context and inversion

Vision Research

Volumn 51, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1338-1350

  Meinhardt Injac, Bozana ^a   Zöllig, Jacqueline ^a   Persike, Malte ^b   Martin, Mike ^a   Seiffge Krenke, Inge ^b   Meinhardt, Günter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Face inversion effect; Face perception; Holistic processing; Internal and external features

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MICROENVIRONMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTION; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; VISION;

EID: 82755190454     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: 18785646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2011.04.010     Document Type: Article

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