Cortex
Volume 45, Issue 10 , Pages 1229-1245 , November 2009

Spatial forms and mental imagery

  • Mark C. Price

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationPsychology Faculty, University of Bergen, Christiesgt. 12, 5015 Bergen, Norway.

Received 4 July 2008 ,Revised 14 April 2009 ,Accepted 18 June 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2009.06.013

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