Active navigation and orientation-free spatial representations

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 51-71

  Sun, Hong Jin ^a   Chan, George S W ^a   Campos, Jennifer L ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLLEGE STUDENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEARNING; REACTION TIME; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TRAINING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 1642289579     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03195820     Document Type: Article

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