Squinting with the mind's eye: Effects of stimulus resolution on imaginal and perceptual comparisons

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 276-287

  Kosslyn, Stephen M ^a,c   Sukel, Katherine E ^a   Bly, Benjamin Martin ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c 832 William James Hall ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; RESPONSE TIME; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; VISION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0032902308     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03211412     Document Type: Article

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