Size Matters: A Single Representation Underlies Our Perceptions of Heaviness in the Size-Weight Illusion

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Buckingham, Gavin ^a   Goodale, Melvyn A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FORCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; PERCEPTION; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SIZE WEIGTH ILLUSION; WEIGHT; WEIGHT LIFTING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILLUSIONS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SIZE PERCEPTION; WEIGHT PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84872793174     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0054709     Document Type: Article

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