Face gender recognition in developmental prosopagnosia: Evidence for holistic processing and use of configural information

Visual Cognition

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1242-1253

  DeGutis, Joseph ^a,b   Chatterjee, Garga ^b   Mercado, Rogelio J ^a,b   Nakayama, Ken ^b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Developmental prosopagnosia; Face inversion; Gender recognition; Holistic processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL PROSOPAGNOSIA; FACE; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSOPAGNOSIA; RECOGNITION;

EID: 84873159322     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: 14640716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506285.2012.744788     Document Type: Article

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