Influence of perceptual factors on line bisection

Cortex

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 523-536

  Chieffi, Sergio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Humans; Line bisection; Masking factors; Perceptual factors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MASKING; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0032880232     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70816-5     Document Type: Article

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