Anatomical limitations in mental transformations of body parts

Visual Cognition

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 737-758

  Petit, Leila S ^a   Harris, Irina M ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; BODY POSTURE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 22244464215     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506280444000481     Document Type: Article

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