Evaluating Müller-Lyer effects using single fin-set configurations

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 293-312

  Greene, Ernest ^a   Nelson, Brian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTION DISORDER; REACTION TIME; VISUAL ILLUSION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OPTICAL ILLUSIONS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL DISTORTION; REACTION TIME; SIZE PERCEPTION;

EID: 0031068612     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03211897     Document Type: Article

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