Shape Completion Time Depends on the Size of the Occluded Region

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 980-998

  Shore, David I ^a   Enns, James T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; REACTION TIME;

FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MALE; MOTION; REACTION TIME; SIZE PERCEPTION;

EID: 0031202407     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.23.4.980     Document Type: Article

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