Inferences Through Imagined Actions: Knowing by Simulated Doing

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 116-136

  Schwartz, Daniel L ^a,b   Black, Tamara ^a,b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0033476915     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.25.1.116     Document Type: Article

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