Can massive but passive exposure to faces contribute to face recognition abilities?

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 285-289

  Yovel, Galit ^a   Halsband, Keren ^a   Pelleg, Michel ^a   Farkash, Naomi ^b   Gal, Bracha ^b   Goshen Gottstein, Yonatan ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Face recognition; Individuation; Newborn face effect; Other race effect; Perceptual training

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APTITUDE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ETHNIC GROUP; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALIZATION; LEARNING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; NEWBORN NURSING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECOGNITION; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; APTITUDE; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ETHNIC GROUPS; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUATION; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; NEONATAL NURSING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865311347     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0027077     Document Type: Article

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