Which Mechanical Invariants Are Associated With the Perception of Length and Heaviness of a Nonvisible Handheld Rod? Testing the Inertia Tensor Hypothesis

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 346-354

  Kingma, Idsart ^a   Van De Langenberg, Rolf ^a   Beek, Peter J ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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EID: 1842484841     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.30.2.346     Document Type: Article

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