Location matters: Why target location impacts performance in orientation tasks

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 41-59

  Gunzelmann, Glenn ^a   Anderson, John R ^b  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ORIENTATION; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DECISION MAKING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; KINESTHESIA; LEARNING; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

ADULT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; DECISION MAKING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; KINESTHESIS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SOFTWARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 33745953052     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03193385     Document Type: Article

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