Automatic identification of familiar faces

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 75, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1438-1450

  Jung, Kyunghun ^a   Ruthruff, Eric ^a   Gaspelin, Nicholas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Automaticity; Face identification; Psychological refractory period paradigm

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; EGO DEVELOPMENT; FACE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGICAL REFRACTORY PERIOD; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION; YOUNG ADULT;

ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FACE; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REFRACTORY PERIOD, PSYCHOLOGICAL; UNCONSCIOUS (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84885785522     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-013-0468-3     Document Type: Article

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