Revisiting domain-general accounts of category specificity in mind and brain

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 327-344

  Chen, Lang ^a   Rogers, Timothy T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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EID: 84940216929     PISSN: 19395078     EISSN: 19395086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wcs.1283     Document Type: Review

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