A cognitive model of strategies for cardinal direction judgments

Spatial Cognition and Computation

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 179-212

  Gugerty, Leo ^a   Rodes, William ^a  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardinal directions; Cognitive modeling; Visual short term memory

Indexed keywords

CARDINAL DIRECTION; COGNITIVE MODEL; COGNITIVE MODELING; COLLEGE STUDENTS; NAVIGATION TASKS; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPATIAL COGNITION; SPATIAL INFORMATIONS;

STUDENTS;

BUFFER STORAGE;

EID: 77951533430     PISSN: 13875868     EISSN: 15427633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13875860701418230     Document Type: Article

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