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Science 21 April 1978:
Vol. 200. no. 4339, pp. 330 - 332
DOI: 10.1126/science.635592
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Science, Vol 200, Issue 4339, 330-332
Copyright © 1978 by American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Psychophysical functions for perceived and remembered size

RS Moyer, DR Bradley, MH Sorensen, C Whiting, and DP Mansfield

Separate groups of people estimated the sizes of perceived or of remembered objects. In three independent experiments, both sets of data were well fit by power functions, and the exponent was reliably smaller by remembered than for perceived size.


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