Naive Optics: Predicting and Perceiving Reflections in Mirrors

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 982-1002

  Bertamini, Marco ^a   Spooner, Alice ^a   Hecht, Heiko ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; OPTICS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; VISION;

ADULT; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; OPTICS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0242425932     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.29.5.982     Document Type: Article

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