A test of size-scaling and relative-size hypotheses for the moon illusion

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 64, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 1281-1289

  Redding, Gordon M ^a  

^a ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; MOON; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; RANDOMIZATION; VISION; VISUAL ILLUSION;

HUMANS; MOON; OPTICAL ILLUSIONS; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SIZE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0036879190     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03194771     Document Type: Article

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