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Eye Movement Monitoring of Memory
Published on: August 15, 2010
Eye movements during visual mental imagery
Fred W. Mast1, Stephen M. Kosslyn
1Dept of Psychology, Harvard University, 02138, Cambridge, MA, USA
Trends in Cognitive Sciences
|July 12, 2002
Abstract:
It has long been debated whether eye movements play a functional role in visual mental imagery. A recent paper by Laeng and Teodorescu presents new evidence that eye movements are stored as a spatial index that is used to arrange the component parts correctly when mental images are generated.

