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Gaze Restriction and Reactivation of Place-bound Content Drive Eye Movements During Mental Imagery

Journal of Cognition
Volume 6 (2023): Issue 1
By: Lilla M. Gurtner,  Walter F. Bischof and  Fred W. Mast  
Open Access
|Aug 2023

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/joc.316 | Journal eISSN: 2514-4820
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Language: English
Submitted on: Dec 5, 2022
Accepted on: Aug 9, 2023
Published on: Aug 31, 2023
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year
Keywords:
visual imagery,
eye movement,
looking at nothing,
recurrence quantification analysis,
individual differences

© 2023 Lilla M. Gurtner, Walter F. Bischof, Fred W. Mast, published by Ubiquity Press
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