Goal-specific influences on the representation of spatial perspective

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 309-319

  Taylor, Holly A ^a   Naylor, Susan J ^a   Chechile, Nicholas A ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NORMAL HUMAN; RECALL; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPATIAL MEMORY; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0032948385     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03211414     Document Type: Article

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