Straight to the point: how people encode linear discontinuations

Spatial discontinuations, as those found in cities and buildings, are everyday events. But, how do we encode and classify such misalignments? This is the topic of this paper. Twenty participants were asked to classify a total of 51 icons showing an upward-moving line being misaligned to the right, l...

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Main Authors: Rodrigo I. Mora, Alejandro Lobos, Agustín Ibáñez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal Fluminense 2012-12-01
Series:Fractal: Revista de Psicologia
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1984-02922012000300005&lng=en&tlng=en