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V J Volbrecht1, E E Shrago, B E Schefrin

  • 1Department of Psychology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins 80523-1876, USA. vickiv@lamar.colostate.edu

Journal of the Optical Society of America. A, Optics, Image Science, and Vision
|March 9, 2000
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