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Published on: August 15, 2010

Why do we move our eyes while trying to remember? The relationship between non-visual gaze patterns and memory

Dragana Micic1, Howard Ehrlichman, Rebecca Chen

  • 1Department of Psychology, Queens College, City University of New York (CUNY), Flushing, NY 11357, USA. dmicic@nyc.rr.com

Brain and Cognition
|September 25, 2010
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