Early deafness increases the face inversion effect but does not modulate the composite face effect

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue APR, 2012, Pages

  de Heering, Adélaïde ^a   Aljuhanay, Abeer ^b   Rossion, Bruno ^a   Pascalis, Olivier ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE MENDÈS FRANCE   (France)

Author keywords

Composite; Configural; Deaf; Faces; Hearing; Holistic; Inversion

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867118392     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00124     Document Type: Article

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