Landmarks as beacons and associative cues: Their role in route learning

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 910-924

  Waller, David ^a   Lippa, Yvonne ^a  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; DIRECTIONAL VISION; ENVIRONMENT; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING; NORMAL HUMAN; RECALL; RECOGNITION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 34548630807     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03193465     Document Type: Article

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