Centre-of-Mass Confounds Contribute to Familiar Size Stroop Effects with Boger and Firestone’s ‘Visual Anagrams’
By: Gregory Davis
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/joc.500 | Journal eISSN: 2514-4820
Language: English
Page range: 27 - 27
Submitted on: Apr 22, 2026
Accepted on: Apr 22, 2026
Published on: Apr 28, 2026
Published by: Ubiquity Press
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