Impaired sensitivity to spatial configurations in healthy aging.
Healthy aging is associated with decline in social, emotion, and identity perception, which is frequently attributed to deterioration of structures involved in social inference. It is believed that this decline is unlikely to be a result of perceptual aberrations due to intact (corrected) visual acu...
| Published in: | Cortex: A Journal Devoted to the Study of the Nervous System & Behavior Vol. 155; pp. 347 - 357 |
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Masson SPA
Oct2022
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