What makes a route appear longer? An experimental perspective on features, route segmentation, and distance knowledge

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A: Human Experimental Psychology

Volumn 58, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1390-1414

  Jansen Osmann, Petra ^a   Berendt, Bettina ^b  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RECEPTIVE FIELD; VISUAL ILLUSION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; MALE; OPTICAL ILLUSIONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 33644875565     PISSN: 02724987     EISSN: 14640740     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02724980443000638     Document Type: Article

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