Getting from here to there: Spatial anxiety, wayfinding strategies, direction type, and wayfinding efficiency

Spatial Cognition and Computation

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 179-201

  Hund, Alycia M ^a   Minarik, Jennifer L ^a  

^a ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Spatial anxiety; Spatial orientation; Wayfinding

Indexed keywords

CARDINAL DIRECTION; DESCRIPTORS; NAVIGATION ERROR; NAVIGATION PERFORMANCE; SPATIAL ANXIETY; SPATIAL ORIENTATIONS; WAY-FINDING; WAYFINDING STRATEGY;

NAVIGATION;

EFFICIENCY;

EID: 41949111888     PISSN: 13875868     EISSN: 15427633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15427633scc0603_1     Document Type: Article

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