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Return of the mental image: are there really pictures in the brain?
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- Authors
- Pylyshyn, Z.
- Venue
- Trends in Cognitive Sciences
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2003-03
- Volume
- 7
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 113-118
- ISSN
- 1364-6613 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2110793036
- Cited by
- 355
- References
- 4
- FWCI
- 4.54
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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