Previews, Premotions, and Predictions

Predictions in the Brain: Using Our Past to Generate a Future

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Gilbert, Daniel T ^a   Wilson, Timothy D ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotional prediction; Memory; Previews; Promotions; Viewing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922761397     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195395518.003.0055     Document Type: Chapter

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