The effects of mental representation on performance in a navigation task

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 1189-1203

  Barshi, Immanuel ^a,b   Healy, Alice F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; LANGUAGE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFORMANCE; SPATIAL MEMORY; VERBAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 0036932124     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03213402     Document Type: Article

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