The Cambridge Face Memory Test: Results for neurologically intact individuals and an investigation of its validity using inverted face stimuli and prosopagnosic participants

2005/09/20 by Brad Duchaine, Ken Nakayama · 1,069 citations
Computer Science · Medicine · Neuroscience · Psychology · #Audiology #Cognition #Cognitive psychology #Developmental psychology #Face (sociological concept) #Face Recognition and Perception #Face perception #Face recognition and analysis #Facial Nerve Paralysis Treatment and Research #Facial recognition system #Neuroscience #Pattern recognition (psychology) #Perception #Psychology #Recognition memory #Test (biology) #Two-alternative forced choice #Visual agnosia

paper · doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2005.07.001

published in Neuropsychologia 44(4), 576-585 (Elsevier BV)

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