Prioritized Detection of Personally Familiar Faces

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Gobbini, Maria Ida ^a,b   Gors, Jason D ^b   Halchenko, Yaroslav O ^b   Rogers, Courtney ^b   Guntupalli, J Swaroop ^b   Hughes, Howard ^b   Cipolli, Carlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; AWARENESS; CONSCIOUSNESS; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; RECOGNITION; VISION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION; ATTENTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; FACIAL RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME FACTOR;

ADULT; ATTENTION; FACIAL RECOGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84879260620     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0066620     Document Type: Article

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