Estimation of height for persons in pictures

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 60, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1318-1328

  Kato, Kinuyo ^a   Higashiyama, Atsuki ^b  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b RITSUMEIKAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BODY HEIGHT; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; BODY HEIGHT; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SEX FACTORS; SIZE PERCEPTION;

EID: 0032197307     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03207994     Document Type: Article

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