Individual differences in using geometric and featural cues to maintain spatial orientation: Cue quantity and cue ambiguity are more important than cue type

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 176-181

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

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APTITUDE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COLOR VISION; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; KINESTHESIA; LOCOMOTION; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROBLEM SOLVING; RECALL;

APTITUDE; COLOR PERCEPTION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; KINESTHESIS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; SPACE PERCEPTION; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 62649163400     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/PBR.16.1.176     Document Type: Article

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