Mirror-image confusions: Implications for representation and processing of object orientation

Cognition

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 110-129

  Gregory, Emma ^a   McCloskey, Michael ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mirror images; Object representation; Orientation; Spatial cognition; Vision

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISPLAY SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MIRROR IMAGE CONFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

CONFUSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952887218     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2010.04.005     Document Type: Article

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