The role of eye height in perceiving affordances and object dimensions

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 490-507

  Wraga, Maryjane ^a,b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EYE; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION;

EYE; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; SIZE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0033111522     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03211968     Document Type: Article

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