Interplay between visual and spatial: The effect of landmark descriptions on comprehension of route/survey spatial descriptions

Spatial Cognition and Computation

Volumn 5, Issue 2-3, 2005, Pages 163-185

  Lee, Paul U ^a   Tversky, Barbara ^b  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Landmark; Perspective; Route; Spatial; Spatial mental models; Survey; Visual; Wayfinding

Indexed keywords

LANDMARK; PERSPECTIVE; ROUTE; SPATIAL; SPATIAL MENTAL MODELS; VISUAL; WAY-FINDING;

SURVEYS;

EID: 38349000296     PISSN: 13875868     EISSN: 15427633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13875868.2005.9683802     Document Type: Article

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