On the assessment of landmark salience for human navigation

Cognitive Processing

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 249-267

  Caduff, David ^a   Timpf, Sabine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attention; Information processing; Landmark; Navigation; Salience

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; COGNITION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ATTENTION; COGNITION; CUES; ENVIRONMENT; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; ORIENTATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 55049117887     PISSN: 16124782     EISSN: 16124790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10339-007-0199-2     Document Type: Review

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