Disrupting perceptual grouping of face parts impairs holistic face processing

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 83-91

  Curby, Kim M ^a   Goldstein, Rebecca R ^b   Blacker, Kara ^c  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Face perception; Grouping; Holistic processing; Object based attention; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871350666     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-012-0386-9     Document Type: Article

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