Production and perception rules underlying visual patterns: Effects of symmetry and hierarchy

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 367, Issue 1598, 2012, Pages 2007-2022

  Westphal Fitch, Gesche ^a   Huber, Ludwig ^b   Gómez, Juan Carlos ^c   Tecumseh Fitch, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autism spectrum disorder; Hierarchy; Pattern perception; Pigeons; Plane patterns; Symmetry

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BIRD; CORRELATION; ESTHETICS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; LANGUAGE; PERCEPTION; SYMMETRY; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 84862121798     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2012.0098     Document Type: Article

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