The role of experience in location estimation: Target distributions shift location memory biases

Cognition

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 147-153

  Lipinski, John ^a   Simmering, Vanessa R ^b   Johnson, Jeffrey S ^b   Spencer, John P ^c  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c University of Iowa   (United States)

Author keywords

Categorization; Spatial cognition; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; ORIENTATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 77249126381     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2009.12.008     Document Type: Article

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