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A Psychophysics Paradigm for the Collection and Analysis of Similarity Judgments
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A Psychophysics Paradigm for the Collection and Analysis of Similarity Judgments

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L J Hayes, S Thompson, S C Hayes

    Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
    |November 1, 1989
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