Dissociation between visual attention and visual mental imagery
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Dissociation between visual attention and visual mental imagery
Visual mental imagery (which involves generating and transforming visual mental representations, i.e., seeing with the mind's eye) and visual attention appear to be distinct processes. However, some researchers have claimed that imagery effects can be explained by appeal to attention (and thus, that imagery is nothing more than a form of attention). In this study, we used a size manipulation to...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Cognitive Psychology
سال: 2011
ISSN: 2044-5911,2044-592X
DOI: 10.1080/20445911.2011.477810