The contribution of shape and surface information in the other-race face effect

Visual Cognition

Volumn 21, Issue 9-10, 2013, Pages 1202-1223

  Michel, Caroline ^a   Rossion, Bruno ^a   Bülthoff, Isabelle ^b   Hayward, William G ^c,d   Vuong, Quoc C ^e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^e NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Face recognition; Other race face effect; Shape cues; Surface cues

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIAN; ASSOCIATION; CAUCASIAN; FACE; FACIES; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IDENTITY; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RECOGNITION; RESPONSE TIME; SURFACE PROPERTY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84892818127     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: 14640716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506285.2013.823141     Document Type: Article

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