Face animacy is not all in the eyes: Evidence from contrast chimeras

Perception

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 355-367

  Balas, Benjamin ^a   Tonsager, Christopher ^a  

^a NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Animacy; Contrast negation; Face perception

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EGO; EYE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; YOUNG ADULT;

ATTENTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; EYE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REALITY TESTING; SPACE PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84902775114     PISSN: 03010066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/p7696     Document Type: Article

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