Fechner's aesthetics revisited

Seeing and Perceiving

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 263-271

  Phillips, Flip ^a   Norman, J Farley ^b   Beers, Amanda M ^b  

^a SKIDMORE COLLEGE   (United States)

^b WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aesthetics; Beauty; Fechner; Form; History; Shape

Indexed keywords

AESTHETICS; BEAUTY; FECHNER; FORM; SHAPE;

EXPERIMENTS; HISTORY;

RATING;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

ESTHETICS; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

EID: 79957997466     PISSN: 18784755     EISSN: 18784763     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/187847510X516412     Document Type: Article

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