Enhanced mental rotation ability in time-space synesthesia

Cognitive Processing

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 429-434

  Brang, David ^a   Miller, Luke E ^b   McQuire, Marguerite ^c   Ramachandran, V S ^b   Coulson, Seana ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Imagery; Memory; Spatial forms; Spatial processes; Spatial sequences; Synesthesia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SPATIAL MEMORY; TIME SPACE SYNESTHESIA; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MOTIVATION; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; ROTATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE; TIME PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84885958426     PISSN: 16124782     EISSN: 16124790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10339-013-0561-5     Document Type: Article

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