The role of the sound of tapping for nonvisual judgment of gap crossability

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 900-916

  Burton, Gregory ^a  

^a SETON HALL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; LOCOMOTION; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION; SOUND;

AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LOCOMOTION; MALE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SOUND;

EID: 0034198008     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.26.3.900     Document Type: Article

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