CVNet - followup to Attneave shapes query

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Date: Tue Aug 29 2000 - 17:44:54 PDT

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    From: "John W. senders" <jw.senders@utoronto.ca>
    Subject: Re: CVNet - followup on query re: Attneave shapes

    >Kyle R. Cave" <kc@coglit.soton.ac.uk>
    >Subject: Re: CVNet - query; Attneave Shapes
    >
    >My memory is that there is a paper by Fred Attneave published some time in
    >the 1950's that describes the procedure he used for generating these
    >shapes. I think it is Attneave (1957). JEP 53: 221-227.

    My own recollection is that Fred used those figures in his paper in
    INFORMATION THEORY IN PSYCHOLOGY, H. Quastler, ed., Basic Books, 1956
    (or thereabouts) The book, long out of print, is still a
    stimulating and provocative collection of papers.

    John Senders

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