How category structure influences the perception of object similarity: The atypicality bias

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue JUN, 2012, Pages

  Tanaka, James William ^a   Kantner, Justin ^a   Bartlett, Marni ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Categorization; face perception; Morphing; Object perception; Perceptual similarity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867138117     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00147     Document Type: Review

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