Spatial biases in number line bisection tasks are due to a cognitive illusion of length

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 220, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 147-152

  Stöttinger, Elisabeth ^a   Anderson, Britt ^a   Danckert, James ^a   Frühholz, Barbara ^b   Wood, Guilherme ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cognitive illusion of length; Judd illusion; Line bisection; Numerical magnitude; Shift of spatial attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; OBSERVER BIAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL BIAS; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ILLUSION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OPTICAL ILLUSIONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SIZE PERCEPTION; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 84864280770     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-012-3125-5     Document Type: Article

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