On picturing a candle: The prehistory of imagery science

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 7, Issue APR, 2016, Pages

  MacKisack, Matthew ^a   Aldworth, Susan ^b   Macpherson, Fiona ^c   Onians, John ^d   Winlove, Crawford ^a   Zeman, Adam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

fMRI; History of philosophy; History of psychology; Imagination; Philosophy of mind; Visual imagery

Indexed keywords

EID: 84974623261     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00515     Document Type: Article

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