Face and object recognition: How do they differ?

Tutorials in Visual Cognition

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 261-303

  McKone, Elinor ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203847305     Document Type: Chapter

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