How might the discrepancy in the effects of perceptual variables on numerosity judgment be reconciled?

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 72, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1839-1853

  Tokita, Midori ^a   Ishiguchi, Akira ^a  

^a OCHANOMIZU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; LEARNING; MATHEMATICS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING;

DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MATHEMATICS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); SIZE PERCEPTION;

EID: 77958509183     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/APP.72.7.1839     Document Type: Article

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