Visual imagery and memory: Do retrieval strategies affect what the mind's eye sees?

European Journal of Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 631-652

  Handy, Todd C ^a   Miller, Michael B ^b,c   Schott, Bjoern ^d   Shroff, Neha M ^e   Janata, Petr ^e   Van Horn, John D ^e   Inati, Souheil ^e   Grafton, Scott T ^e   Gazzaniga, Michael S ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; REST; RETINA IMAGE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL MEMORY;

EID: 4644251005     PISSN: 09541446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09541440340000457     Document Type: Article

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