Context effects in visual length perception: Role of ocular, retinal, and spatial location

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 478-492

  Arieh, Yoav ^a   Marks, Lawrence E ^b  

^a JOHN B PIERCE LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RECEPTIVE FIELD; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL ILLUSION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; MALE; OPTICAL ILLUSIONS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SIZE PERCEPTION; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 0036545903     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03194719     Document Type: Article

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