When intuition fails to align with data: A reply to Rossion (2013)

Visual Cognition

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 254-276

  Richler, Jennifer J ^a   Gauthier, Isabel ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Face perception; Face recognition; Holistic processing

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; COGNITION; COMPOSITE PARADIGM; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; HOLISTIC PROCESSING; HUMAN; INTUITION; MENTAL TASK; NOTE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESEARCH; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84878619036     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: 14640716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506285.2013.796035     Document Type: Note

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