Seeing ahead: Experience and language in spatial perspective

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 380-386

  Alloway, Tracy Packiam ^a   Corley, Martin ^b   Ramscar, Michael ^c  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIRTUAL REALITY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASSOCIATION; COLOR VISION; COMPREHENSION; COMPUTER INTERFACE; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; IMAGINATION; KINESTHESIA; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; COLOR PERCEPTION; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; KINESTHESIS; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 33745657073     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03193415     Document Type: Article

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