The shape of human navigation: How environmental geometry is used in maintenance of spatial orientation

Cognition

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 281-286

  Kelly, Jonathan W ^a   McNamara, Timothy P ^a   Bodenheimer, Bobby ^b   Carr, Thomas H ^c   Rieser, John J ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Navigation; Path integration; Reorientation; Spatial cognition; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATION; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; ROTATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 55949098162     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2008.09.001     Document Type: Article

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