Size–brightness correspondence: Crosstalk and congruity among dimensions of connotative meaning
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عنوان ژورنال: Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1943-3921,1943-393X
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-012-0297-9