Specifying the human body configuration

Visual Cognition

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 898-919

  Ramm, Brentyn J ^a   Cummins, Tarrant D R ^a   Slaughter, Virginia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Body inversion effect; Body structural description; Configural processing; Human body perception; Symmetry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BODY BUILD; BODY IMAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIMB; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 77953520523     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: 14640716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506280903412153     Document Type: Article

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