Effects of Background Knowledge on Object Categorization and Part Detection

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1153-1169

  Lin, Emilie L ^b   Murphy, Gregory L ^a  

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

^b NONE

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EID: 0031501881     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.23.4.1153     Document Type: Article

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