Exploiting illusory effects to disclose similarities in numerical and luminance processing

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1001-1008

  Ranzini, Mariagrazia ^a   Girelli, Luisa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

ATOM model; Common magnitude code; Luminance; Numerical magnitude; Visual illusions

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTION DISORDER; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISUAL ILLUSION;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; OPTICAL ILLUSIONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL DISTORTION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SIZE PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84862646151     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-012-0302-3     Document Type: Article

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