Integrating visual mental images and visual percepts: New evidence for depictive representations

Psychological Research

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 259-271

  Lewis, Katie J S ^a   Borst, Grégoire ^b   Kosslyn, Stephen M ^b  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MEMORY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY, LONG-TERM; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79958767633     PISSN: 03400727     EISSN: 14302772     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00426-010-0304-5     Document Type: Article

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