Spatial memory organized by environmental geometry

Spatial Cognition and Computation

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 347-369

  Schmidt, Thomas ^a   Lee, Eun Young ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Spatial cognition; Spatial memory; Spatial memory distortions; Spatial reference systems

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL REFERENCES; OBJECT POSITIONS; REFERENCE SYSTEMS; SIMULTANEOUS EFFECTS; SPATIAL COGNITION; SPATIAL MEMORY; SPATIAL REFERENCE SYSTEMS;

EID: 41949115431     PISSN: 13875868     EISSN: 15427633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15427633scc0604_4     Document Type: Article

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