Detecting symmetry and faces: Separating the tasks and identifying their interactions

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 988-1000

  Jones, Rebecca M ^a   Victor, Jonathan D ^a   Conte, Mary M ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Faces; Inversion effect; Symmetry; Vision

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REACTION TIME; RECEPTIVE FIELD; STUDENT;

ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FACE; FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; STUDENTS;

EID: 84862673242     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-012-0273-4     Document Type: Article

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