A new pharmacological tool to investigate integration processes

Visual Cognition

Volumn 6, Issue 3-4, 1999, Pages 267-297

  Giersch, Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF STRASBOURG   (France)

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EID: 0000427230     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/135062899394984     Document Type: Article

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