The Holistic Representation of Faces

Perception of Faces, Objects, and Scenes: Analytic and Holistic Processes

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Tanaka, James W ^a   Farah, Martha J ^b  

^a OBERLIN COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain damage; Face components; Holistic processing; Nonface objects; Object recognition; Part stimulus

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920373796     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195313659.003.0003     Document Type: Chapter

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