Face ethnicity and measurement reliability affect face recognition performance in developmental prosopagnosia: Evidence from the Cambridge face memory test-Australian

Cognitive Neuropsychology

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 109-146

  McKone, Elinor ^a,b   Hall, Ashleigh ^a   Pidcock, Madeleine ^a   Palermo, Romina ^a,b   Wilkinson, Ross B ^a   Rivolta, Davide ^c   Yovel, Galit ^d   Davis, Joshua M ^a   O'Connor, Kirsty B ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b ARC CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE IN COGNITION AND ITS DISORDERS   (Australia)

^c MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Developmental prosopagnosia; Ethnicity; Face recognition; Measurement error; Memory delay

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CAR; CAUCASIAN; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; ETHNIC GROUP; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISRAEL; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSOPAGNOSIA; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RECOGNITION; REFERENCE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUSTRALIA; AUTOMOBILES; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROSOPAGNOSIA; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEX FACTORS; SOFTWARE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 83055163380     PISSN: 02643294     EISSN: 14640627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02643294.2011.616880     Document Type: Article

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