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The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section B
Comparative and Physiological Psychology
Volume 48, 1995 - Issue 1
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Similarity and Discrimination Learning

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Pages 46-66 | Received 10 Mar 1994, Published online: 29 May 2007

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