A Twin Study of Individual Differences in Perceptual Asymmetry

Laterality

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 299-311

  Valera, Eve M ^a   Heller, Wendy ^a   Berenbaum, Howard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

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EID: 0004303239     PISSN: 1357650X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/713754340     Document Type: Article

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