The brain may know more than cognitive theory can tell us: A reply to Ted Parks

Perception

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 633-636

  Dresp, Birgitta ^a   Spillmann, Lothar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

HUMAN; NOTE; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REPRODUCIBILITY; THEORETICAL MODEL; VISUAL ILLUSION;

COGNITIVE SCIENCE; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICAL ILLUSIONS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0035232114     PISSN: 03010066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/p2959b     Document Type: Review

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