How Shape Constancy Relates to Drawing Accuracy

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 8-19

  Cohen, Dale J ^a   Jones, Holly Earls ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

art; drawing; encoding; shape constancy; spatial perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 77349101272     PISSN: 19313896     EISSN: 1931390X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1931-3896.2.1.8     Document Type: Article

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