Development of a self-report measure of environmental spatial ability

Intelligence

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 425-447

  Hegarty, Mary ^a   Richardson, Anthony E ^a   Montello, Daniel R ^a   Lovelace, Kristin ^a   Subbiah, Ilavanil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental spatial abilities; Scale; Sense of direction; Spatial cognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; SELF REPORT; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; STANDARDIZATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VALIDATION PROCESS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 0036743042     PISSN: 01602896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0160-2896(02)00116-2     Document Type: Article

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