Context, visual salience, and inductive reasoning

Thinking and Reasoning

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 349-374

  Roberts, Maxwell J ^a   Welfare, Heather ^a   Livermore, Doreen P ^a   Theadom, Alice M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 3543001564     PISSN: 13546783     EISSN: 14640708     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/135467800750038175     Document Type: Article

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