Structures of mental spaces: How people think about space

Environment and Behavior

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 66-80

  Tversky, Barbara ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NAVIGATION; PERCEPTION; SPATIAL COGNITION;

GEOMETRIDAE;

EID: 0037226634     PISSN: 00139165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013916502238865     Document Type: Article

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