Chasin’ choppers: using unpredictable trajectories to test theories of object interception

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• Publication year

  2013

• Venue

  Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics

• Publication date

  2013-07-18

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Computer Science, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.3758/s13414-013-0500-7PMID 23864264
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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