Representational flexibility and specificity following spatial descriptions of real-world environments

Cognition

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 418-443

  Brunyé, Tad T ^a   Rapp, David N ^b   Taylor, Holly A ^c  

^a US Army NSRDEC   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Maps; Memory; Mental models; Spatial cognition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

COGNITION; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAPS AS TOPIC; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 45849124219     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2008.03.005     Document Type: Article

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