Dealing with indeterminacy in spatial descriptions

Psychological Research

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 553-566

  Van Der Henst, Jean Baptiste ^a   Chevallier, Coralie ^a   Schaeken, Walter ^b   Mercier, Hugo ^c   Noveck, Ira ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c INSTITUT JEAN NICOD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; SEMANTICS; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

COGNITION; HUMANS; NARRATION; SEMANTICS; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 46349093553     PISSN: 03400727     EISSN: 14302772     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00426-007-0130-6     Document Type: Article

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