Wayfinding tasks in visually impaired people: The role of tactile maps

Cognitive Processing

Volumn 7, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2006, Pages

  Caddeo, Pierluigi ^a   Fornara, Ferdinando ^b   Nenci, Anna Maria ^c   Piroddi, Amelia ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^c LUMSA UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Blindness; Cognitive mapping; Wayfinding

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; COMPETENCE; CONFERENCE PAPER; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LEARNING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL MEMORY; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAVEL; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

EID: 33747797091     PISSN: 16124782     EISSN: 16124790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10339-006-0128-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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