Learning to recognize face shapes through serial exploration

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 226, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 513-523

  Wallraven, Christian ^a   Whittingstall, Lisa ^b   Bülthoff, Heinrich H ^a,b  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Face processing strategies; Face recognition; Learning; Perceptual expertize; Serial encoding

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE MASK; FACE PROFILE; FEMALE; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VELOCITY; VISUAL INFORMATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FACE; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84877873982     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-013-3463-y     Document Type: Article

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