Searching for triangles: An extension to food and packaging

Food Quality and Preference

Volumn 44, Issue , 2015, Pages 26-35

  Shen, Xu ^a   Wan, Xiaoang ^a   Mu, Bingbing ^a   Spence, Charles ^b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Food; Packaging; Triangles; Visual search

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926284804     PISSN: 09503293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2015.03.015     Document Type: Article

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