Perceiving Affordances for Fitting Through Apertures

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1501-1514

  Ishak, Shaziela ^a   Adolph, Karen E ^a   Lin, Grace C ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

affordance; aperture; perception action; psychophysics; reaching

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTION DISORDER; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTUAL DISTORTION; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SIZE PERCEPTION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 57749198484     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0011393     Document Type: Article

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