High and low performers differ in the use of shape information for face recognition

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1310-1319

  Kaufmann, Jürgen M ^a   Schulz, Claudia ^a,b   Schweinberger, Stefan R ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Event related potentials; Face learning; Individual differences; N250; Spatial caricaturing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIELEFELDER FAMOUS FACES TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACE; FACE RECOGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; RECOGNITION; RESPONSE TIME; SHAPE; TEXTURE; TRAINING;

EID: 84877835993     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2013.03.015     Document Type: Article

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