Face recognition: A model specific ability

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue OCT, 2014, Pages

  Wilmer, Jeremy B ^a   Germine, Laura T ^b   Nakayama, Ken ^c  

^a WELLESLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cambridge face memory test; Face recognition; Generalist gene; Individual differences; Intelligence; IQ; Multiple intelligences; Specific ability

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FACE RECOGNITION; FACIES; HUMAN; MENTAL CAPACITY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 84933670217     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00769     Document Type: Article

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