Learning to visually perceive the relative mass of colliding balls in globally and locally constrained task ecologies

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 1019-1038

  Jacobs, David M ^a   Runeson, Sverker ^b   Michaels, Claire F ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENT; HUMAN; LEARNING; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PERCEPTION; RANDOMIZATION; VISION;

BIOMECHANICS; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LEARNING; MOTION PERCEPTION; RANDOM ALLOCATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; WEIGHT PERCEPTION;

EID: 85046234618     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.27.5.1019     Document Type: Article

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