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Three-Dimensional Shape Modeling and Analysis of Brain Structures
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Using Matlab to generate families of similar Attneave shapes

Charles A Collin1, Patricia A McMullen

  • 1Psychology Department, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, B3H 4J1 Canada. ccollin@is.dal.ca

Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers : a Journal of the Psychonomic Society, Inc
|June 14, 2002
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