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Dr. Adam Cooper
University College London, London, UK

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Journal article
Published: 04 March 2020 in Sustainability
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A strong indigenous capacity for credible, salient and legitimate knowledge production is crucial to support African countries in developing their economies and societies inclusively and sustainably. In this article, we aim to quantify the current and historic capacity for African knowledge production to support the green economy in Africa, and identify important topical gaps. With a focus on topics relating to Governing Inclusive Green Growth in Africa (GIGGA), our research mapped how much Africa-focused research is being produced, from where and which African countries have higher or lower supply; and the topical focus of the research, mapping it against the African GIGGA policy discourses visible in government strategies. To do this we undertook a systematic review using a two-stage process, mapping the literature for GIGGA. This resulted in 960 verified citations. Content analysis of core metadata and article abstracts enabled mapping of the research focus. The analysis revealed a significant role for South Africa as both the pre-eminent producer of GIGGA literature as well as the geographic focus of GIGGA research, with Nigeria, Ethiopia and Kenya representing emerging loci of credible, African-relevant knowledge production. Topically, there was a strong emphasis on development, policy and environment while topics important for growth that is inclusive in character were infrequent or absent. Overall the results reinforced the view that investment is needed in research on inclusive green growth, linked to capacity building for knowledge production systems in Africa. Furthermore, from a policy perspective, policy makers and academics need to actively explore best to collaborate to ensure that academic research informs government policy.

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Adam Cooper; Chipo Mukonza; Eleanor Fisher; Yacob Mulugetta; Mulu Gebreeyesus; Magnus Onuoha; Abu-Bakar Massaquoi; Kennedy Chigozie Ahanotu; Chukwumerije Okereke. Mapping Academic Literature on Governing Inclusive Green Growth in Africa: Geographical Biases and Topical Gaps. Sustainability 2020, 12, 1956 .

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Adam Cooper, Chipo Mukonza, Eleanor Fisher, Yacob Mulugetta, Mulu Gebreeyesus, Magnus Onuoha, Abu-Bakar Massaquoi, Kennedy Chigozie Ahanotu, Chukwumerije Okereke. Mapping Academic Literature on Governing Inclusive Green Growth in Africa: Geographical Biases and Topical Gaps. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (5):1956.

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Adam Cooper; Chipo Mukonza; Eleanor Fisher; Yacob Mulugetta; Mulu Gebreeyesus; Magnus Onuoha; Abu-Bakar Massaquoi; Kennedy Chigozie Ahanotu; Chukwumerije Okereke. 2020. "Mapping Academic Literature on Governing Inclusive Green Growth in Africa: Geographical Biases and Topical Gaps." Sustainability 12, no. 5: 1956.

Original article
Published: 26 January 2018 in Energy Efficiency
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Vine et al.’s (2014) call for more randomised controlled trials (RCTs) in government-funded energy efficiency policy evaluation practice raises timely questions about what constitutes effective designs for evaluating and informing energy policy. Their implicit hypothesis that policy organisations share the same epistemic perspective as they do, and that the reason there are few RCTs are due to a set of barriers to be overcome is examined in relation to the UK government Department of Energy and Climate Change. Drawing on the author’s experience of working in the ministry, the claim that barriers are a reason for preventing RCT use is discounted. An alternative explanation is presented, framed around the idea of an ‘energy policy epistemology’ that legitimately places certain specific knowledge demands and ways of knowing on research and evaluation designs. Through examination of a specific set of research and evaluation outputs related to the UK energy efficiency policy called the ‘Green Deal’, aspects of the proposed ‘energy policy epistemology’ are elucidated to explain the lack of demand for RCT designs. Final consideration is given to what kinds of designs are more likely to gain support in this context that might also deliver many of the benefits attributed to RCTs with longitudinal panels being one important example.

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Adam C. G. Cooper. Evaluating energy efficiency policy: understanding the ‘energy policy epistemology’ may explain the lack of demand for randomised controlled trials. Energy Efficiency 2018, 11, 997 -1008.

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Adam C. G. Cooper. Evaluating energy efficiency policy: understanding the ‘energy policy epistemology’ may explain the lack of demand for randomised controlled trials. Energy Efficiency. 2018; 11 (4):997-1008.

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Adam C. G. Cooper. 2018. "Evaluating energy efficiency policy: understanding the ‘energy policy epistemology’ may explain the lack of demand for randomised controlled trials." Energy Efficiency 11, no. 4: 997-1008.

Journal article
Published: 01 April 2017 in Energy Research & Social Science
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Adam Cooper. Building physics into the social: Enhancing the policy impact of energy studies and energy social science research. Energy Research & Social Science 2017, 26, 80 -86.

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Adam Cooper. Building physics into the social: Enhancing the policy impact of energy studies and energy social science research. Energy Research & Social Science. 2017; 26 ():80-86.

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Adam Cooper. 2017. "Building physics into the social: Enhancing the policy impact of energy studies and energy social science research." Energy Research & Social Science 26, no. : 80-86.

Journal article
Published: 01 April 2017 in Energy Research & Social Science
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Adam Cooper. Building a socio-technical energy research community: Theory, practice and impact. Energy Research & Social Science 2017, 26, 115 -120.

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Adam Cooper. Building a socio-technical energy research community: Theory, practice and impact. Energy Research & Social Science. 2017; 26 ():115-120.

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Adam Cooper. 2017. "Building a socio-technical energy research community: Theory, practice and impact." Energy Research & Social Science 26, no. : 115-120.

Research article
Published: 26 August 2015 in Indoor and Built Environment
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Research understanding energy consumption is usually approached from either an engineering or social science perspective. The result is either understanding technologies and materials or understanding people. Yet, energy consumption is clearly an interaction between people, materials and technologies. So understanding them with separate studies or data that miss this interaction fails to grasp the socio-technical nature of energy consumption. Multidisciplinary studies that currently collect both social and technical data normally gather each type of data with distinct spatio-temporal properties. Typically, researchers then exploit these data streams separately at analysis stage. However, there is no discussion of the problems arising when attempting to combine data streams from such different approaches to create interdisciplinary, integrated socio-technical research. We explore these problems across three cases of research on energy use to illustrate what happens when social and technical data are analysed together in different research contexts. Issues include the possibility of Type I errors, the incommensurability of social versus technical data and the spatio-temporal alignment of data streams. We examine how and why standard multidisciplinary approaches can be problematic, and go on to examine possible solutions to address these problems including a proposed approach to designing interdisciplinary, integrated socio-technical research in energy use.

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Jenny Love; Adam Cg Cooper. From social and technical to socio-technical: Designing integrated research on domestic energy use. Indoor and Built Environment 2015, 24, 986 -998.

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Jenny Love, Adam Cg Cooper. From social and technical to socio-technical: Designing integrated research on domestic energy use. Indoor and Built Environment. 2015; 24 (7):986-998.

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Jenny Love; Adam Cg Cooper. 2015. "From social and technical to socio-technical: Designing integrated research on domestic energy use." Indoor and Built Environment 24, no. 7: 986-998.

The lancet commissions
Published: 22 June 2015 in The Lancet
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REVIEWJOURNAL ARTICLEThe 2015 Lancet Commission on Health and Climate Change has been formed to map out the impacts of climate change, and the necessary policy responses, in order to ensure the highest attainable standards of health for populations worldwide. This Commission is multidisciplinary and international in nature, with strong collaboration between academic centres in Europe and China.\ud The central finding from the Commission's work is that tackling climate change could be the greatest global health opportunity of the 21st century.The central funding for the Commission was provided by ClimateWorks Foundation, the European Climate Foundation, Microsoft Research Asia, the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD), the National Environment Research Council through an Impact Acceleration award to the University of Exeter (NE/L012782/1), Martin Rushton-Turner, the Stordalen Foundation, and University College London’s Grand Challenge for Global Health

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Nick Watts; William Neil Adger; Paolo Agnolucci; Jason Blackstock; Peter Byass; Wenjia Cai; Sarah Chaytor; Timothy Colbourn; Mat Collins; Adam Cooper; Peter Cox; Joanna Depledge; Paul Drummond; Paul Ekins; Victor Galaz; Delia Grace; Hilary Graham; Michael Grubb; Andy Haines; Ian Hamilton; Alasdair Hunter; Xujia Jiang; Moxuan Li; Ilan Kelman; Lu Liang; Melissa Lott; Robert Lowe; Yong Luo; Georgina Mace; Mark Maslin; Maria Nilsson; Tadj Oreszczyn; Steve Pye; Tara Quinn; My Svensdotter; Sergey Venevsky; Koko Warner; Bing Xu; Jun Yang; Yongyuan Yin; Chaoqing Yu; Qiang Zhang; Peng Gong; Hugh Montgomery; Anthony Costello. Health and climate change: policy responses to protect public health. The Lancet 2015, 386, 1861 -1914.

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Nick Watts, William Neil Adger, Paolo Agnolucci, Jason Blackstock, Peter Byass, Wenjia Cai, Sarah Chaytor, Timothy Colbourn, Mat Collins, Adam Cooper, Peter Cox, Joanna Depledge, Paul Drummond, Paul Ekins, Victor Galaz, Delia Grace, Hilary Graham, Michael Grubb, Andy Haines, Ian Hamilton, Alasdair Hunter, Xujia Jiang, Moxuan Li, Ilan Kelman, Lu Liang, Melissa Lott, Robert Lowe, Yong Luo, Georgina Mace, Mark Maslin, Maria Nilsson, Tadj Oreszczyn, Steve Pye, Tara Quinn, My Svensdotter, Sergey Venevsky, Koko Warner, Bing Xu, Jun Yang, Yongyuan Yin, Chaoqing Yu, Qiang Zhang, Peng Gong, Hugh Montgomery, Anthony Costello. Health and climate change: policy responses to protect public health. The Lancet. 2015; 386 (10006):1861-1914.

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Nick Watts; William Neil Adger; Paolo Agnolucci; Jason Blackstock; Peter Byass; Wenjia Cai; Sarah Chaytor; Timothy Colbourn; Mat Collins; Adam Cooper; Peter Cox; Joanna Depledge; Paul Drummond; Paul Ekins; Victor Galaz; Delia Grace; Hilary Graham; Michael Grubb; Andy Haines; Ian Hamilton; Alasdair Hunter; Xujia Jiang; Moxuan Li; Ilan Kelman; Lu Liang; Melissa Lott; Robert Lowe; Yong Luo; Georgina Mace; Mark Maslin; Maria Nilsson; Tadj Oreszczyn; Steve Pye; Tara Quinn; My Svensdotter; Sergey Venevsky; Koko Warner; Bing Xu; Jun Yang; Yongyuan Yin; Chaoqing Yu; Qiang Zhang; Peng Gong; Hugh Montgomery; Anthony Costello. 2015. "Health and climate change: policy responses to protect public health." The Lancet 386, no. 10006: 1861-1914.

Journal article
Published: 12 October 2012 in Cultural Trends
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Adam Cooper. The drivers, impact and value of CASE: A short history from the inside. Cultural Trends 2012, 21, 281 -289.

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Adam Cooper. The drivers, impact and value of CASE: A short history from the inside. Cultural Trends. 2012; 21 (4):281-289.

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Adam Cooper. 2012. "The drivers, impact and value of CASE: A short history from the inside." Cultural Trends 21, no. 4: 281-289.

Comparative study
Published: 01 March 2004 in Experimental Brain Research
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The 'attentional blink' (AB) reflects a limitation in the ability to identify multiple items in a stream of rapidly presented information. Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS), applied to a site over the right posterior parietal cortex, reduced the magnitude of the AB to visual stimuli, whilst no effect of rTMS was found when stimulation took place at a control site. The data confirm that the posterior parietal cortex may play a critical role in temporal as well as spatial aspects of visual attention.

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Adam C. G. Cooper; Glyn W. Humphreys; Johan Hulleman; Peter Praamstra; Mark Georgeson. Transcranial magnetic stimulation to right parietal cortex modifies the attentional blink. Experimental Brain Research 2004, 155, 24 -29.

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Adam C. G. Cooper, Glyn W. Humphreys, Johan Hulleman, Peter Praamstra, Mark Georgeson. Transcranial magnetic stimulation to right parietal cortex modifies the attentional blink. Experimental Brain Research. 2004; 155 (1):24-29.

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Adam C. G. Cooper; Glyn W. Humphreys; Johan Hulleman; Peter Praamstra; Mark Georgeson. 2004. "Transcranial magnetic stimulation to right parietal cortex modifies the attentional blink." Experimental Brain Research 155, no. 1: 24-29.

Journal article
Published: 01 December 2003 in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
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We introduce a novel procedure for investigating factors that determine selective attention to letters in words. Participants were presented with words (in Experiments 1 and 3) and nonwords (in Experiment 2) that contained a buried word whose letters differed in color relative to the other letters present (e.g., pig, in spring). The strings were presented in single case or mixed case, keeping the letters of the buried words in one case (SpRiNg). The time in which the whole stimulus was named was shorter for same-case than for mixed-case strings (for spring: spring < SpRiNg). In contrast, the time in which buried words were named was shorter in mixed- than in same-case strings (for pig: spring > SpRiNg). Across items, the effects of case mixing were negatively correlated across the two tasks. The positive effect of case mixing for buried words also occurred irrespective of whether the whole string was a word or a nonword, and there were contributions from similarity of both letter size and case. The results suggest that case mixing can facilitate selective attention to letters, which is otherwise disrupted by size- and case-based grouping across letter strings. The study provides evidence for letter grouping using size and case information.

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Glyn W. Humphreys; Kate Mayall; Adam C. G. Cooper. The PIG in sPrInG: Evidence on letter grouping from the reading of buried words. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 2003, 10, 939 -946.

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Glyn W. Humphreys, Kate Mayall, Adam C. G. Cooper. The PIG in sPrInG: Evidence on letter grouping from the reading of buried words. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 2003; 10 (4):939-946.

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Glyn W. Humphreys; Kate Mayall; Adam C. G. Cooper. 2003. "The PIG in sPrInG: Evidence on letter grouping from the reading of buried words." Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 10, no. 4: 939-946.

Journal article
Published: 01 May 2002 in Perception & Psychophysics
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Visual marking (VM) refers to our ability to completely exclude old items from search when new stimuli are presented in our visual field. We examined whether this ability reflects an attentional scan of the old items, possibly allowing observers to apply inhibition of return or maintain a memory representation of already seen locations. In four experiments, we compared performance in two search conditions. In the double-search (DS) condition, we required participants to pay attention to a first set of items by having them search for a target within the set. Subsequently, they had to search a second set while the old items remained in the field. In the VM condition, the participants expected the target only to be in the second (new) set. Selection of new items in the DS condition was relatively poor and was always worse than would be expected if only the new stimuli had been searched. In contrast, selection of the new items in the VM condition was good and was equal to what would be expected if there had been an exclusive search of the new stimuli. These results were not altered when differences in Set 1 difficulty, task switching, and response generation were controlled for. We conclude that the mechanism of VM is distinct from mnemonic and/or serial inhibition-of-return processes as involved in search, although we also discuss possible links to more global and flexible inhibition-of-return processes not necessarily related to search.

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Christian N. L. Olivers; Glyn W. Humphreys; Dietmar Heinke; Adam C. G. Cooper. Prioritization in visual search: Visual marking is not dependent on a mnemonic search. Perception & Psychophysics 2002, 64, 540 -560.

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Christian N. L. Olivers, Glyn W. Humphreys, Dietmar Heinke, Adam C. G. Cooper. Prioritization in visual search: Visual marking is not dependent on a mnemonic search. Perception & Psychophysics. 2002; 64 (4):540-560.

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Christian N. L. Olivers; Glyn W. Humphreys; Dietmar Heinke; Adam C. G. Cooper. 2002. "Prioritization in visual search: Visual marking is not dependent on a mnemonic search." Perception & Psychophysics 64, no. 4: 540-560.

Neurowatch
Published: 25 May 2001 in NeuroReport
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Adam Cooper. Visual neglect needs more than attention. NeuroReport 2001, 12, A47 .

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Adam Cooper. Visual neglect needs more than attention. NeuroReport. 2001; 12 (7):A47.

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Adam Cooper. 2001. "Visual neglect needs more than attention." NeuroReport 12, no. 7: A47.

Journal article
Published: 01 May 2001 in The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A
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We describe a patient (GK) who shows symptoms associated with Balint's syndrome and attentional dyslexia. GK was able to read words, but not nonwords. He also made many misidentification and mislocation errors when reporting letters in words, suggesting that his word-naming ability did not depend upon preserved position-coded, letter identification. We show that GK was able to read lower-case words better than upper-case words, but upper-case abbreviations better than lower-case abbreviations. Spacing the letters in abbreviations disrupted identification, as did mixing the case of letters within words. These data cannot be explained in terms of letter-based reading or preserved holistic word recognition. We propose that GK was sensitive to the visual familiarity of adjacent letter forms.

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Deborah A. Hall; Glyn W. Humphreys; Adam C. G. Cooper. Neuropsychological evidence for case-specific reading: Multi-letter units in visual word recognition. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A 2001, 54, 439 -467.

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Deborah A. Hall, Glyn W. Humphreys, Adam C. G. Cooper. Neuropsychological evidence for case-specific reading: Multi-letter units in visual word recognition. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A. 2001; 54 (2):439-467.

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Deborah A. Hall; Glyn W. Humphreys; Adam C. G. Cooper. 2001. "Neuropsychological evidence for case-specific reading: Multi-letter units in visual word recognition." The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A 54, no. 2: 439-467.

Case reports
Published: 01 October 2000 in Neuropsychologia
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The deficits underlying orientation agnosia in a patient (MB) with a right fronto-temporo-parietal lesion were examined. Like similar patients in the literature, MB was impaired at discriminating whether objects were upright or not and, in copying, she tended to re-represent stimuli as upright. In addition, MB failed to show the normal effects of rotation on object identification; her naming of objects rotated 45° from upright was no slower than her naming of upright items. Effects of the degree of rotation did emerge, however, when she had to perform a matching task that required mental rotation. The evidence suggests that orientation may be coded in several ways (e.g. separately between objects and relative to the viewer), and that brain-damage can selectively affect the use of some but not all types of orientation information.

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Adam C.G Cooper; Glyn W Humphreys. Task-specific effects of orientation information: neuropsychological evidence. Neuropsychologia 2000, 38, 1607 -1615.

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Adam C.G Cooper, Glyn W Humphreys. Task-specific effects of orientation information: neuropsychological evidence. Neuropsychologia. 2000; 38 (12):1607-1615.

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Adam C.G Cooper; Glyn W Humphreys. 2000. "Task-specific effects of orientation information: neuropsychological evidence." Neuropsychologia 38, no. 12: 1607-1615.

Case reports
Published: 01 June 2000 in Neuropsychologia
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The ability to make spatial judgements was examined in a patient demonstrating poor perception of multiple objects following bilateral parietal lesions, under conditions in which the presence of the stimuli to which judgements were made could be detected. The tasks required judgements of spatial length or the position of coloured parts of stimuli. We manipulated the degree to which two uprights in a display could be encoded into a single perceptual object using either stored knowledge or bottom-up cues based on 2D or 3D image relations. Performance was dependent on the presence of both bottom-up grouping and familiarity. However, connectedness in the image was not sufficient to benefit performance, when stimuli were separate objects in 3D space. This deficit in spatial judgements, arising following detection of the relevant stimulus elements, is attributed to an impairment in coding the spatial relations between separate perceptual objects. This deficit could be overcome if stimuli could be grouped in 3D, using bottom-up cues and top-down knowledge

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A.C.G Cooper; G.W Humphreys. Coding space within but not between objects: evidence from Balint’s syndrome. Neuropsychologia 2000, 38, 723 -733.

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A.C.G Cooper, G.W Humphreys. Coding space within but not between objects: evidence from Balint’s syndrome. Neuropsychologia. 2000; 38 (6):723-733.

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A.C.G Cooper; G.W Humphreys. 2000. "Coding space within but not between objects: evidence from Balint’s syndrome." Neuropsychologia 38, no. 6: 723-733.