Connectedness affects dot numerosity judgment: Implications for configural processing

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 509-517

  He, Lixia ^a   Zhang, Jun ^b   Zhou, Tiangang ^a   Chen, Lin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMAN; MATHEMATICS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISUAL ILLUSION;

ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MATHEMATICS; OPTICAL ILLUSIONS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

EID: 67650511617     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/PBR.16.3.509     Document Type: Article

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