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The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A
Human Experimental Psychology
Volume 35, 1983 - Issue 2
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Visual control of discrete aiming movements

Stephen A. Wallace Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Colorado, Boulder
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Karl M. Newell Institute for Child Behavior and Development University of Illinois at Champaign, Urbana, USA
Pages 311-321 | Received 30 May 1982, Published online: 29 May 2007

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