Smaller holistic processing of faces associated with face drawing experience

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 157-162

  Zhou, Guomei ^a   Cheng, Zhijie ^a   Zhang, Xudong ^a   Wong, Alan C N ^b  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Experience; Face perception; Face recognition; Holistic processing; Perceptual expertise

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863381083     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-011-0174-x     Document Type: Article

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