Beyond the grand illusion: What change blindness really teaches us about vision

Visual Cognition

Volumn 7, Issue 1-3, 2000, Pages 93-106

  Noë, Alva ^a   Pessoa, Luiz ^b   Thompson, Evan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^c YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENT; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; ILLUSION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; VISION; VISUAL MEMORY;

EID: 0034078337     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/135062800394702     Document Type: Review

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