Memory for targets in a multilevel simulated environment: Evidence for vertical asymmetry in spatial memory

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 283-297

  Wilson, Paul N ^a,d   Foreman, Nigel ^b   Stanton, Danaë ^c   Duffy, Hester ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BUILDING; COGNITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NORMAL HUMAN; SPATIAL MEMORY;

EID: 2442708966     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03196859     Document Type: Article

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