Mental Rotation - A Case of Embodied Action

AAAI Fall Symposium - Technical Report

Volumn FS-96-02, Issue , 1996, Pages 139-144

  Wohlschläger, Andreas ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HANDS MOVEMENT; MENTAL ROTATION; VISUAL IMAGERY;

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DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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