Remembering the past and imagining the future: A role for nonvisual imagery in the everyday cognition of blind and sighted people

Memory

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 925-936

  Eardley, Alison F ^a   Pring, Linda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BLINDNESS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGERY; IMAGINATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LIFE EVENT; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; REINFORCEMENT; RETINA IMAGE; SENSORY STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VISION; VISUAL MEMORY;

ADULT; AGED; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUTOBIOGRAPHY; BLINDNESS; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33750608051     PISSN: 09658211     EISSN: 14640686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09658210600859582     Document Type: Article

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