Learning a spatial skill for surgery: How the contributions of abilities change with practice

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 487-503

  Keehner, Madeleine ^a,d   Lippa, Yvonne ^b   Montello, Daniel R ^a   Tendick, Frank ^c   Hegarty, Mary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LAPAROSCOPE; LEARNING; MALE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SKILL; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SURGEON; SURGICAL TRAINING; TASK PERFORMANCE; VALIDITY; VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 33646544695     PISSN: 08884080     EISSN: 10990720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acp.1198     Document Type: Article

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