Individual differences in collinearity judgment as a function of angular position

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 62, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1440-1458

  Greene, Ernest ^a,b   Frawley, William ^c   Swimm, Randall ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Neuropsychology Foundation   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISUAL ILLUSION;

HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; JUDGMENT; OPTICAL ILLUSIONS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

EID: 0034296358     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03212145     Document Type: Article

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