The Dispersion of Eye Movements During Visual Imagery is Related to Individual Differences in Spatial Imagery Ability

Expanding the Space of Cognitive Science - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1200-1205

  Johansson, Roger ^a   Holsanova, Jana ^a   Holmqvist, Kenneth ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Eye movements; object imagery; spatial cognition; spatial imagery; visual attention; working memory

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DISPERSIONS;

COGNITIVE STYLES; INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES; MEMORY CAPACITY; NEGATIVE CORRELATION; OBJECT IMAGERY; SPATIAL COGNITION; SPATIAL IMAGERY; VISUAL ATTENTION; VISUAL IMAGERY; WORKING MEMORY;

EYE MOVEMENTS;

EID: 85139521459     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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