Mental imagery and chunks: Empirical and computational findings

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 505-517

  Waters, Andrew J ^a   Gobet, Fernand ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAME; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PROBLEM SOLVING; RECALL; VISUAL MEMORY; ADULT; ALGORITHM; COGNITION; COMPUTER; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; FEMALE; IMAGINATION; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; RANDOMIZATION;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; COGNITION; COMPUTERS; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; LEARNING; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; RANDOM ALLOCATION;

EID: 45849116538     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/MC.36.3.505     Document Type: Article

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