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Cascade processes in picture identification

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Social Sciences, Neuroscience, Psychology +15

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Keith R. Laws · Neuropsychologia · 1999 · 113 citations

Life Sciences, Biology, Phonological Awareness +7

Gender Affects Naming Latencies for Living and Nonliving Things: Implications for Familiarity

Keith R. Laws · Cortex · 1999 · 82 citations · Full text

Social Sciences, Psychology, Gender +7