Saccadic compression of symbolic numerical magnitude

Paola Binda1, M Concetta Morrone, Frank Bremmer

  • 1Department of Translational Research on New Technologies in Medicine and Surgery, Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy. pbinda1@uw.edu

Plos One
|November 21, 2012
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