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This research was conducted at Dundee University, Dundee, Scotland, while the author was on Leave Fellowship from The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
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Ono, H. On Wells’s (1792) law of visual direction. Perception & Psychophysics 30, 403–406 (1981). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03206159
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