The Meandering Mind: Vection and Mental Time Travel

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Miles, Lynden K ^a   Karpinska, Katarzyna ^a   Lumsden, Joanne ^a   Macrae, C Neil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; DAY DREAMING; DREAM; EXPERIENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ILLUSION; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TIME TRAVEL; MOTION; SPACE; THINKING; FEMALE; IMAGINATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTION PERCEPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956288975     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0010825     Document Type: Article

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