Multisensory synesthetic interactions in the speeded classification of visual size

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 68, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1191-1203

  Gallace, Alberto ^a,b   Spence, Charles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

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EID: 33947516629     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03193720     Document Type: Article

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