Object imagery and object identification: object imagers are better at identifying spatially-filtered visual objects

Cognitive Processing - Tập 9 Số 2 - Trang 137-143 - 2008
Manila Vannucci1, Giuliana Mazzoni2, Carlo Chiorri3, Lavinia Cioli1
1Department of Psychology, University of Florence, Via S.Niccolò 93–50125 Florence, Italy
2Department of Psychology, University of Hull, Hull, UK
3Department of Anthropological Sciences, Psychology Unit, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy

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