The relevance of selecting what's relevant: A dual process approach to transitive reasoning with spatial relations

Thinking and Reasoning

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 164-187

  Ameel, Eef ^a   Verschueren, Niki ^a   Schaeken, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

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EID: 34247518179     PISSN: 13546783     EISSN: 14640708     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13546780600780671     Document Type: Article

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