Do landmarks help or hinder women in route learning?

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 95, Issue 3 PART 1, 2002, Pages 713-718

  Gwinn, Heather M ^b   Fernando, Shona ^b   James, Sufiy ^b   Wilson, Josephine F ^a  

^a WITTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; ORIENTATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECALL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; ORIENTATION; SEX FACTORS; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 0036982759     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pms.2002.95.3.713     Document Type: Article

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