Mental animation in the visuospatial sketchpad: Evidence from dual-task studies

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 321-332

  Sims, Valerie K ^a,b   Hegarty, Mary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CEDAR CREST COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PROBLEM SOLVING; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 0030985281     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03211288     Document Type: Article

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