Mental imagery and blindness

Multisensory Imagery

Volumn 9781461458791, Issue , 2013, Pages 115-130

  Renzi, Chiara ^a   Cattaneo, Zaira ^b,c   Vecchi, Tomaso ^a,c   Cornoldi, Cesare ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^c C MONDINO NATIONAL NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Blindness; Imagery; Memory; Navigation; Spatial biases; Spatial cognition; Visual impairment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84949180442     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-5879-1_7     Document Type: Chapter

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