Synaesthetic visuo-spatial forms: Viewing sequences in space

Cortex

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1138-1147

  Simner, Julia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATION; COGNITION; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; IMAGERY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NEUROSCIENCE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME PERCEPTION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

CUES; HUMANS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 69549108118     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2009.07.001     Document Type: Editorial

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