Two principles of premise integration in spatial reasoning

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 131-139

  Hörnig, Robin ^a   Oberauer, Klaus ^a   Weidenfeld, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SPATIAL MEMORY; THINKING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; LINGUISTICS; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTION TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 20644437736     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03195303     Document Type: Article

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