New percepts via mental imagery?

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue OCT, 2012, Pages

  Mast, Fred W ^a   Tartaglia, Elisa M ^b,c   Herzog, Michael H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

Ambiguous figure; Bisection; Combinatorics; Interpolation; Mental rotation; Perceptual learning; Top down processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870892231     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00360     Document Type: Review

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