Grasping the Müller-Lyer illusion: Not a change in perceived length

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 176, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 497-503

  Biegstraaten, Marianne ^a   De Grave, Denise D J ^a,b   Brenner, Eli ^a,b   Smeets, Jeroen B J ^a,b  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE HAND COORDINATION; HAND GRIP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MULLER LYER ILLUSION; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VELOCITY; VISION; VISUAL ILLUSION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OPTICAL ILLUSIONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SIZE PERCEPTION;

EID: 33845746283     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-006-0744-8     Document Type: Article

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