Ebbinghaus illusion: context, contour, and age influence the judged size of a circle amidst circles.

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• Publication year

  1979

• Venue

  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

• Publication date

  1979-05-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1037//0096-1523.5.2.353PMID 528945
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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