Mental representations of obligatory and prohibitory traffic signs

Acta Psychologica

Volumn 129, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 8-17

  Castro, Cándida ^a   Moreno Ríos, Sergio ^a   Tornay, Francisco ^a   Vargas, Cristina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Deductive reasoning; Deontics; Diagrammatic premise; Driving; Mental models; Traffic signs

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CAR DRIVING; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REACTION TIME; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SOCIAL CONTROL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTION TIME; SOCIAL CONTROL, FORMAL;

EID: 49349107268     PISSN: 00016918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2008.03.016     Document Type: Article

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