Visual homing in the absence of feature-based landmark information

Cognition

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 105-122

  Gillner, Sabine ^a   Weiß, Anja M ^a   Mallot, Hanspeter A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Human navigation; Landmark; Snapshot memory

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BUILDING; COGNITION; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION;

ADULT; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MEMORY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 54249158669     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2008.07.018     Document Type: Article

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