The allocation system: Using signal detection processes to regulate representations in a multimodular mind

Evolution and the Psychology of Thinking: The Debate

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 11-32

  Brase, Gary L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUNDERLAND   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203641606     Document Type: Chapter

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