Do artists see their retinas?

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 5, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Perdreau, Florian ^a   Cavanagh, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

Art; Scene perception; Vision; Visual constancy; Visual search

Indexed keywords

BRIGHTNESS; DECISION MAKING; DRAWING; FINGER; HUMAN; RETINA IMAGE; SKILL; VELOCITY; VISION;

EID: 84992365604     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2011.00171     Document Type: Article

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