Some remarks on wholes, parts and their perception

Psycoloquy

Volumn 8, Issue , 1997, Pages

  Latimer, Cyril ^a   Stevens, Catherine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Analytic versus holistic processing; Emergence; Feature gestalt; Global versus local precedence part; Whole

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041070439     PISSN: 10550143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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