Meanings, mechanisms, and measures of holistic processing

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue DEC, 2012, Pages

  Richler, Jennifer J ^a   Palmeri, Thomas J ^a   Gauthier, Isabel ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Face perception; Face processing; Face recognition; Holistic processing; Object recognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874481256     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00553     Document Type: Article

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