Reorienting when cues conflict: A role for information content in spatial learning?

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 90-98

  Sturz, Bradley R ^a   Diemer, Stephanie M ^a  

^a Armstrong State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Feature; Geometry; Human; Orientation; Spatial Learning; Virtual Environment

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LEARNING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TRAINING; VISUAL CUE;

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; FEMALE; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION; LEARNING; MALE; ORIENTATION; RESPONSE TIME; REWARD; SPATIAL LEARNING; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTITUDE; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 72449186133     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2009.11.001     Document Type: Article

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