Working memory in wayfinding - A dual task experiment in a virtual city

Cognitive Science

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 755-770

  Meilinger, Tobias ^a   Knauff, Markus ^b   Bulthoff, Heinrich H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dual coding; Dual task; Grounding; Spatial task; Verbal task; Virtual reality; Visual task; Working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 45949094254     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03640210802067004     Document Type: Article

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