The IAT shows no evidence for Kandinsky's color-shape associations

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 4, Issue SEP, 2013, Pages

  Makin, Alexis D J ^a   Wuerger, Sophie M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bauhaus; Color; Form; Implicit association test; Kandinsky; Shape; Synesthesia

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885351741     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00616     Document Type: Article

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