Functional equivalence of spatial representations derived from vision and language: Evidence from allocentric judgments

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 801-814

  Avraamides, Marios N ^a   Loomis, Jack M ^a   Klatzky, Roberta L ^b   Golledge, Reginald G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MALE; NOISE; REACTION TIME; VISION;

FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MALE; NOISE; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 16644395953     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.30.4.804     Document Type: Article

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