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31 - Memory effects on color perception

from Part VIII - Psychological effects on color perception

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 April 2016

Andrew J. Elliot
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University of Rochester, New York
Mark D. Fairchild
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Rochester Institute of Technology, New York
Anna Franklin
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University of Sussex
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