Imagery and visual working memory: One and the same?

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 489-490

  Tong, Frank ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL REPRESENTATION; VISUAL AREAS; VISUAL IMAGERY; VISUAL INFORMATION; WORKING MEMORY;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

DECISION MAKING; FORCED CHOICE METHOD; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGERY; MENTAL FUNCTION; NEUROIMAGING; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOLOGIST; SHORT SURVEY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 84884416665     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: 1879307X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2013.08.005     Document Type: Short Survey

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