Top-down processes in object identification: Evidence from experimental psychology, neuropsychology and functional anatomy

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 352, Issue 1358, 1997, Pages 1275-1282

  Humphreys, Glyn W ^a   Riddoch, M Jane ^b   Price, Cathy J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0031590125     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1997.0110     Document Type: Review

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