Identifying sources of configurality in three face processing tasks

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue NOV, 2012, Pages

  Mestry, Natalie ^a   Menneer, Tamaryn ^a   Wenger, Michael J ^b   Donnelly, Nick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Configural processing; Face processing; Faces; General recognition theory; Inversion; Perceptual independence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870943582     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00456     Document Type: Article

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