Why are our similarities so different? A reply to humphreys and riddoch

Cortex

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 643-650

  Laws, Keith R ^a   Gale, Tim M ^b,c  

^a NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEEN ELIZABETH II HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGNOSIA; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BEHAVIOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTOUR OVERLAP; EUCLIDEAN OVERLAP; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NOTE; PERCEPTION; PREDICTION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

EID: 0036759614     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70029-7     Document Type: Article

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