The 36th Sir Frederick Bartlett Lecture: An associative analysis of spatial learning

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 62, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1665-1684

  Pearce, John M ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognitive maps; Cue competition; Geometric module; Spatial learning

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ENVIRONMENT; HUMAN; LEARNING; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; COGNITION; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 70449602222     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470210902805589     Document Type: Article

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