Imagining projective transformations: Aligned orientations in spatial organization

Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 125-167

  Pani, John R ^a   Jeffres, John A ^b   Shippey, Gordon T ^b   Schwartz, Karen J ^b  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RECEPTIVE FIELD;

ADULT; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

EID: 0030255039     PISSN: 00100285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/cogp.1996.0015     Document Type: Article

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