Generating visual mental images: Latency and vividness are inversely related

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 1179-1188

  D'Angiulli, Amedeo ^a,b   Reeves, Adam ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; VISION;

EID: 0036923729     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03213401     Document Type: Article

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