Individual difference in use of external visulisations to perform an internal visualisation task

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 701-711

  Cohen, Cheryl A ^a   Hegarty, Mary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPUTER INTERFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGINATION; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISION;

EID: 34848864245     PISSN: 08884080     EISSN: 10990720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acp.1344     Document Type: Article

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