Art, artists, and perception: A model for premotor contributions to perceptual analysis and form recognition

Philosophical Psychology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 149-171

  Seeley, William ^a,c   Kozbelt, Aaron ^b  

^a MARSHALL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Drawing skill; Neuroscience; Object recognition; Perception; Premotor; Visual art

Indexed keywords

EID: 42649116796     PISSN: 09515089     EISSN: 1465394X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09515080801976573     Document Type: Article

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