The face inversion effect-Parts and wholes: Individual features and their configuration

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 728-746

  Civile, Ciro ^a   McLaren, Rossy P ^a   McLaren, Ian P L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Configural information; Expertise; Face recognition; Inversion effect

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION; STUDENT; UNIVERSITY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FACE; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; STUDENTS; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 84897621113     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2013.828315     Document Type: Article

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