A normative set of 98 pairs of nonsensical pictures (droodles)

Takehiko Nishimoto1, Takashi Ueda, Kaori Miyawaki

  • 1Department of Psychology, Faculty of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan. nishi@waseda.jp

Behavior Research Methods
|September 1, 2010
PubMed

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