The fidelity of visual memory for faces and non-face objects

Acta Psychologica

Volumn 143, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 40-51

  Caudek, Corrado ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Face recognition; Objects of expertise; Old new recognition; Summed similarity model; Visual working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RECOGNITION; SHORT TERM MEMORY; VISION;

DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FACE; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84875119439     PISSN: 00016918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2012.12.002     Document Type: Article

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