Language and spatial cognition: Comparing the roles of landmarks and street names in route instructions

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1213-1230

  Tom, Ariane ^a   Denis, Michel ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRAWING; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; RECOGNITION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME; TRAVEL; URBAN AREA;

EID: 11844305027     PISSN: 08884080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acp.1045     Document Type: Article

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