Perception of visual illusions by novice and longer-term meditators

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 1021-1026

  Tloczynski, Joseph ^a   Santucci, Aimee ^b   Astor Stetson, Eileen ^b  

^a BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MEDITATION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROBLEM SOLVING; VISUAL ILLUSION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDITATION; OPTICAL ILLUSIONS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 0034575617     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pms.2000.91.3.1021     Document Type: Article

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