Symmetry in haptic and in visual shape perception

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 389-404

  Ballesteros, Soledad ^a   Millar, Susanna ^b   Reales, José M ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; TOUCH;

FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; REACTION TIME; TOUCH;

EID: 0032040795     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03206862     Document Type: Article

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