Competition Between Face and Nonface Domains of Expertise

Perceptual Expertise: Bridging Brain and Behavior

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Curby, Kim M ^a   Rossion, Bruno ^b  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Capacity limits; Expertise; Face processing; FFA; Interference; N170; Neural specificity; Short term memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920560250     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195309607.003.0009     Document Type: Chapter

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