Pictorial Perception and Art

Blackwell Handbook of Sensation and Perception

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 344-378

  Goldstein, E Bruce ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental information; Geometrical system; Perceptual implications; Pictorial perception; Visual system

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889498708     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470753477.ch11     Document Type: Chapter

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