Memory for an imagined pathway and strategy effects in sighted and in totally congenitally blind individuals

Acta Psychologica

Volumn 130, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 11-16

  Cornoldi, Cesare ^a   Tinti, Carla ^b   Mammarella, Irene C ^a   Re, Anna Maria ^a   Varotto, Diego ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Blindness; Imagery; Spatial ability; Strategy; Vision disorders

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BLINDNESS; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECALL; TOUCH; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; AGED; BLINDNESS; CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; ORIENTATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; TOUCH; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 57649155662     PISSN: 00016918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2008.09.012     Document Type: Article

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