Toward a perceptual theory of transparency

Psychological Review

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 492-519

  Singh, Manish ^a   Anderson, Barton L ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; ILLUMINATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SURFACE PROPERTY; VISION;

CUES; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; LIGHTING; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SURFACE PROPERTIES; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 85047674046     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0033-295X.109.3.492     Document Type: Article

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