A face inversion effect without a face

Cognition

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 365-372

  Brandman, Talia ^a   Yovel, Galit ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Body processing; Context; Face detection; Face processing; Inversion effect

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FACE; FACE INVERSION EFFECT; FEMALE; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION; STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; FACE; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMAN BODY; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME;

EID: 84867401934     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2012.08.001     Document Type: Article

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