Grouping by closure influences subjective regularity and implicit preference

i-Perception

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 519-527

  Makin, Alexis ^a   Pecchinenda, Anna ^b   Bertamini, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aesthetics; Fluency; IAT; Reflection; Symmetry; Translation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867673630     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20416695     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/i0538     Document Type: Article

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