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Psychophysical Methods: What Scientific Procedures Can Be Used to Ask an Observer What Is Being Perceived?

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(2002). Psychophysical Methods: What Scientific Procedures Can Be Used to Ask an Observer What Is Being Perceived?. In: Perception of the Visual Environment. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-21650-2_2

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