Visual aesthetics and human preference

Annual Review of Psychology

Volumn 64, Issue , 2013, Pages 77-107

  Palmer, Stephen E ^a   Schloss, Karen B ^a   Sammartino, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

art; color; harmony; shape; spatial composition; visual perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872440848     PISSN: 00664308     EISSN: 15452085     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-psych-120710-100504     Document Type: Review

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