Can mental images be ambiguous?
Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & PerformancePublished 1 June 1985
Deborah Chambers, Daniel Reisberg
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Abstract
Fondees sur l'hypothese de l'absence de processus interpretatif dans l'imagerie mentale comparee a la perception, trois experiences testent la capacite des sujets a renverser une image mentale
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