Angle judgment: Is the whole the sum of its parts?

Vision Research

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1721-1735

  Chen, Shuai ^a,b   Levi, Dennis M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Angle discrimination; Oblique effect; Orientation discrimination; Spatial relation; Weber's law

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; MATHEMATICS; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; ROTATION;

DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; MATHEMATICS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; ROTATION; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 0029665364     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0042-6989(95)00245-6     Document Type: Article

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