The processing of spatial information in short-term memory: Insights from eye tracking the path length effect

Acta Psychologica

Volumn 132, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 136-144

  Guérard, Katherine ^a   Tremblay, Sébastien ^a   Saint Aubin, Jean ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONCTON   (Canada)

Author keywords

Eye movements; Path length; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CANADA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REACTION TIME; RECALL; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ATTENTION; EYE MOVEMENTS; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; QUEBEC; REACTION TIME; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SERIAL LEARNING; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 70349262402     PISSN: 00016918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2009.01.003     Document Type: Article

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