Slant perception in near space is categorically biased: Evidence for a vertical tendency

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 72, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1875-1889

  Durgin, Frank H ^a   Li, Zhi ^a   Hajnal, Alen ^b  

^a SWARTHMORE COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HAND; HUMAN; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION DISORDER; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PROPRIOCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL DISTORTION; PROPRIOCEPTION; SPACE PERCEPTION; STEREOGNOSIS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 77958485025     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/APP.72.7.1875     Document Type: Article

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