The pictorial context dependency of savant artists: A research note

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 87, Issue 3 PART 1, 1998, Pages 995-1001

  Hermelin, Beate ^b   Pring, Linda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APTITUDE; ART; ARTICLE; CHILD; DEPTH PERCEPTION; GIFTED CHILD; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADULT; APTITUDE; ART; CHILD; CHILD, GIFTED; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MENTAL RETARDATION; SIZE PERCEPTION; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 0032246711     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pms.1998.87.3.995     Document Type: Article

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