Cognitive Style and Perception: The Relationship of Boundary Thinness to Visual-Spatial Processing in Dreaming and Waking Thought

Imagination, Cognition and Personality

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 25-41

  Levin, Ross ^a   Gilmartin, Laura ^a   Lamontanaro, Laura ^b  

^a YESHIVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASSAU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

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EID: 0141833285     PISSN: 02762366     EISSN: 15414477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2190/4GBV-WAYQ-L0YR-RGCB     Document Type: Article

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