Developing race categories in infancy via Bayesian face recognition

Visual Cognition

Volumn 21, Issue 9-10, 2013, Pages 1138-1164

  Balas, Benjamin ^a  

^a NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Category perception; Computational modelling; Other race effect; Perceptual narrowing

Indexed keywords

ACCOUNTING; ARCHITECTURE; ARTICLE; BAYESIAN FACE RECOGNITION; CLASSIFICATION; DEVELOPMENT; FACE; HUMAN; INFANCY; LEARNING; PERCEPTION; PRECURSOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RACE; RECOGNITION; TRAINING;

EID: 84892827792     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: 14640716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506285.2013.800622     Document Type: Article

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