One-Sided Edge Assignment in Vision: 2. Part Decomposition, Shape Description, and Attention to Objects

Current Directions in Psychological Science

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 1995, Pages 201-206

  Driver, Jon ^a   Baylis, Gordon C ^b  

^a GONVILLE AND CAIUS COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

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EID: 84972701421     PISSN: 09637214     EISSN: 14678721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8721.ep10772645     Document Type: Article

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