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Lateral organization and the perception of orientation in pictures: A comment on Freimuth & Wapner's experiment
Author(s) -
Gordon I. E.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
british journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.536
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8295
pISSN - 0007-1269
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1981.tb02189.x
Subject(s) - psychology , perception , orientation (vector space) , social psychology , cognitive psychology , strengths and weaknesses , geometry , neuroscience , mathematics
Freimuth & Wapner (1979), in a study of subjects’ evaluations of original and mirror‐reversed pictures, claim that previous experiments in this area suffer from methodological weaknesses. It is argued that Freimuth & Wapner's own procedure contains two flaws which cast doubt upon the validity of their results.