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Psychophysics: The failure of an elementaristic dream

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Sverker Runeson
Sverker Runeson*
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Department of Psychology, Uppsala University, Box 1854, S-75148 Uppsala, Sweden. psysr@seudac21.bitnet and sverker.runeson@psyk.uu.se
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 17 , Issue 4 , December 1994 , pp. 761 - 763
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