Category-specific effects in object identification: What is "normal"?

Cortex

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 833-841

  Låg, Torstein ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

Artefacts; Category specificity; Natural objects; Object identification; Task demands

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN INJURY; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL TASK; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY;

EID: 28444444413     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70302-2     Document Type: Article

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