The importance of being upright: Use of environmental and viewer-centered reference frames in shape discriminations of novel three-dimensional objects

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 285-295

  Friedman, Alinda ^a   Hall, David Lawrence ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEAD TILTING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; REACTION TIME; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; STANDING; TASK PERFORMANCE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0030002959     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03213293     Document Type: Article

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