Individual differences in spatial text processing

From Mental Imagery to Spatial Cognition and Language Essays in Honour of Michel Denis

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 127-161

  Pazzaglia, Francesca ^a   Gyselinck, Valérie ^b   Cornoldi, Cesare ^a   De Beni, Rossana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b University Paris Descartes   (France)

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