The perception and content of cast shadows: An interdisciplinary review

Spatial Cognition and Computation

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 226-253

  Dee, Hannah M ^a   Santos, Paulo E ^b  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRO UNIVERSITÁRIO DA FEI   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Perception; Shadows; Spatial perception; Spatial reasoning

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051807687     PISSN: 13875868     EISSN: 15427633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13875868.2011.565396     Document Type: Article

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