Integrating information in object counting: A role for a central coordination process?

Cognitive Development

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 393-422

  Towse, John N ^a   Hitch, Graham J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

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EID: 0031185033     PISSN: 08852014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0885-2014(97)90010-1     Document Type: Article

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