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Methods to Explore the Influence of Top-down Visual Processes on Motor Behavior
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Methods to Explore the Influence of Top-down Visual Processes on Motor Behavior

Published on: April 16, 2014

Irrelevance of figural identity for resolving ambiguities in apparent motion

D Navon

    Journal of Experimental Psychology. Human Perception and Performance
    |February 1, 1976
    PubMed

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