Why are angles misperceived?

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 97, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 5592-5597

  Nundy, Surajit ^a   Lotto, Beau ^a   Coppola, David ^a   Shimpi, Amita ^a   Purves, Dale ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBIGUITY; ARTICLE; GEOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; PERCEPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RETINA;

EID: 0034624964     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.97.10.5592     Document Type: Article

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