Acquisition of intellectual and perceptual-motor skills

Annual Review of Psychology

Volumn 52, Issue , 2001, Pages 453-470

  Rosenbaum, David A ^a   Carlson, Richard A ^a   Gilmore, Rick O ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain mechanisms; Imagery; Individual differences; Memory; Skill learning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; INTELLIGENCE; LEARNING; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY;

COGNITION; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; INTELLIGENCE; LEARNING; MOTOR SKILLS; PERCEPTION;

EID: 0035229171     PISSN: 00664308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.psych.52.1.453     Document Type: Article

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