Fast and Famous: Looking for the fastest speed at which a face can be recognized

Face recognition is supposed to be fast. However, the actual speed at which faces can be recognized remains unknown. To address this issue, we report two experiments run with speed constraints. In both experiments, famous faces had to be recognized among unknown ones using a large set of stimuli to...

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Main Authors: Gladys eBarragan-Jason, Gabriel eBesson, Mathieu eCeccaldi, Emmanuel J. Barbeau
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00100/full