Evidence for abstract, schematic knowledge of three spatial diagram representations

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 288-308

  Novick, Laura R ^a   Hurley, Sean M ^a   Francis, Melissa ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; RESPONSE TIME; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPATIAL MEMORY; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; SPATIAL SUMMATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0032902309     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03211413     Document Type: Article

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