Use of Self-to-Object and Object-to-Object Spatial Relations in Locomotion

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1137-1147

  Xiao, Chengli ^a,b   Mou, Weimin ^a,c   McNamara, Timothy P ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

disorientation; object to object spatial relations; self to object spatial relations; spatial updating

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; CONFUSION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LOCOMOTION; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME;

ATTENTION; CONFUSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; LOCOMOTION; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 68949214356     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0016273     Document Type: Article

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