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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

Assessing relations between imagery and perception

W P Banks

    Journal of Experimental Psychology. Human Perception and Performance
    |August 1, 1981
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