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Processing and Psychophysics: Basic Issues. Hillsdale, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
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Process Issues in Facial Cognition: Progress and Challenges. Mahwah, New Jersey: Erlbaum.
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202:(1986). In 1989, Townsend became a Rudy Professor in the Department of Psychology at Indiana University. Townsend became a Distinguished Professor in 2008.
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Psychology. In The Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology. (Volume 3, pages 971-974). New Jersey: John Wiley and Sons.
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