Children's transfer of spatial learning from virtual reality to real environments

Cyberpsychology and Behavior

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 121-128

  McComas, Joan ^a   Pivik, Jayne ^a   Laflamme, Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

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EID: 0000510568     PISSN: 10949313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/cpb.1998.1.121     Document Type: Article

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