Navigational map reading: Predicting performance and identifying relative influence of map-related abilities

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 64-85

  Lobben, Amy K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Abilities; Map reading; Navigation

Indexed keywords

MAP; NAVIGATION;

EID: 33947095157     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: 14678306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8306.2007.00524.x     Document Type: Article

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