Scanning visual mental images: Some structural implications, revisited

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

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 19-42

  Borst, Grégoire ^a   Kosslyn, Stephen M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203078433     Document Type: Chapter

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