Real and virtual borders in the Poggendorff illusion

Perception

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1495-1501

  Westheimer, Gerald ^a   Wehrhahn, Christian ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; VISUAL ILLUSION;

FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; OPTICAL ILLUSIONS; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SIZE PERCEPTION;

EID: 0031306418     PISSN: 03010066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/p261495     Document Type: Article

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