Is Pigmentation Important for Face Recognition? Evidence from Contrast Negation

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• Publication year

  2006

• Venue

  Perception

• Publication date

  2006-06-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1068/p5490PMID 16836042
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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