Is route learning more than serial learning?

Spatial Cognition and Computation

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 289-305

  Buchner, Axel ^a   Jansen Osmann, Petra ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Route learning; Serial learning; Serial recall; Spatial knowledge

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE FRAMEWORK; DYNAMIC CONDITION; DYNAMIC PRESENTATION; METRIC INFORMATION; ROUTE LEARNING; SERIAL LEARNING; SERIAL RECALL; SPATIAL KNOWLEDGE;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 77649095822     PISSN: 13875868     EISSN: 15427633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13875860802047201     Document Type: Article

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