Inspecting visual mental images: Can people "see" implicit properties as easily in imagery and perception?

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1024-1032

  Thompson, William L ^a   Kosslyn, Stephen M ^a,b,e   Hoffman, Michael S ^c   Van Der Kooij, Katinka ^d  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EXPLICIT MEMORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; IMPLICIT MEMORY; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; RELIABILITY; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 46449132714     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/MC.36.5.1024     Document Type: Article

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