Using airpuffs to elicit the human blink reflex

Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 661-666

  Haerich, Paul ^a  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0008661177     PISSN: 07433808     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03209484     Document Type: Article

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