The Role of Categories and Spatial Cuing in Global-Scale Location Estimates

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 94-112

  Friedman, Alinda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

categorization; cognitive mapping; location estimation; spatial cognition; spatial representation

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CANADA; COGNITION; CONSTRUCTION WORK AND ARCHITECTURAL PHENOMENA; DECISION MAKING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; RECEPTIVE FIELD; UNITED STATES;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CANADA; COGNITION; CUES; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LOCATION DIRECTORIES AND SIGNS; MALE; MEMORY; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SPACE PERCEPTION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 58449127789     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0013590     Document Type: Article

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