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Peter Suedfeld, Robert J. Grissom, Jack Vernon, The Effects of Sensory Deprivation and Social Isolation on the Performance of an Unstructured Cognitive Task, The American Journal of Psychology, Vol. 77, No. 1 (Mar., 1964), pp. 111-115
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