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Commonalities between Visual Imagery and Imagery in Other Modalities; an Investigation by Means of fMRI

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Belardinelli, M.O., di Matteo, R., Del Gratta, C., De Nicola, A., Ferretti, A., Romani, G.L. (2004). Commonalities between Visual Imagery and Imagery in Other Modalities; an Investigation by Means of fMRI. In: Carsetti, A. (eds) Seeing, Thinking and Knowing. Theory and Decision Library A:, vol 38. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-2081-3_10

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