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The Gateway to the Brain: Dissecting the Primate Eye
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Two eyes for an eye: the neuroscience of force escalation
Sukhwinder S Shergill1, Paul M Bays, Chris D Frith
1Institute of Neurology, University College London, Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, U.K.
Science (New York, N.Y.)
|July 12, 2003
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