The influence of intentional and incidental learning on acquiring spatial knowledge during navigation

Psychological Research

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 151-156

  Van Asselen, Marieke ^a   Fritschy, Eva ^a   Postma, Albert ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Intentional vs. incidental; Metric information; Route knowledge; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE;

ADULT; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENTION; LEARNING; MALE; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33646729312     PISSN: 03400727     EISSN: 14302772     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00426-004-0199-0     Document Type: Article

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