How Do You Get There from Here? Mental Representations of Route Descriptions

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 415-441

  Schneider, Laura F ^b   Taylor, Holly A ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0007374658     PISSN: 08884080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-0720(199910)13:5<415::aid-acp602>3.0.co;2-n     Document Type: Article

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