Spatial memory: how egocentric and allocentric combine

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 551-557

  Burgess, Neil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

GEOMETRIC MODULE; HUMAN MEMORY; SPATIAL MEMORY;

BRAIN;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; ERROR; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEMORY; MOTION; NERVE CELL; NERVE FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

COGNITION; HUMANS; MEMORY; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ORIENTATION; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 33751417401     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2006.10.005     Document Type: Article

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