Object recognition from point-light stimuli: evidence of covariation structures in conceptual representation

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K Richardson1, D S Webster

  • 1Centre for Human Development & Learning, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.

British Journal of Psychology (London, England : 1953)
|November 1, 1996
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