Cortex
Volume 44, Issue 9 , Pages 1171-1187 , October 2008

Cognitive representation of orientation: A case study

  • Jussi Valtonen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States
    • Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 9, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland.
    • ,
  • Daniel D. Dilks

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States
    • McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States
    • ,
  • Michael McCloskey

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States

Received 17 July 2006 ,Revised 10 April 2007 ,Accepted 14 June 2007.

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