Representations in mental imagery and working memory: Evidence from different types of visual masks.
Although few studies have systematically investigated the relationship between visual mental imagery and visual working memory, work on the effects of passive visual interference has generally demonstrated a dissociation between the two functions. In four experiments, we investigated a possible comm...
| Publicado en: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 40; no. 2; pp. 204 - 218 |
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