One hundred years of an ambiguous figure: Happy birthday, duck/rabbit!

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 973-977

  Brugger, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COGNITION; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0033250993     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pms.1999.89.3.973     Document Type: Article

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