Developmental prosopagnosia and super-recognition: No special role for surface reflectance processing

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 334-340

  Russell, Richard ^a   Chatterjee, Garga ^b   Nakayama, Ken ^b  

^a GETTYSBURG COLLEGE   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Face perception; Face recognition; Pigmentation; Reflectance; Shape; Super recognizers

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; FACE PROFILE; HUMAN; MENTAL TASK; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PIGMENTATION; PROSOPAGNOSIA; SURFACE PROPERTY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL MEMORY;

ADULT; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CUES; FACE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PROSOPAGNOSIA; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 84855890506     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.12.004     Document Type: Article

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