The influence of visual experience on the ability to form spatial mental models based on route and survey descriptions

Cognition

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 321-342

  Noordzij, Matthijs L ^a,b   Zuidhoek, Sander ^a   Postma, Albert ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Blindness; Perspective; Spatial language; Spatial mental model

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRD; BLINDNESS; FLIGHT; HUMAN; MENTAL FUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION; SPATIAL MEMORY; SYMBOLISM; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL MEMORY;

ADULT; APTITUDE; BLINDNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33745161456     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2005.05.006     Document Type: Article

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