An investigation into vertical bias effects

Spatial Cognition and Computation

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 365-391

  Tlauka, Michael ^a   Wilson, Paul N ^b   Adams, Marc ^a   Souter, Caren ^b   Young, Angela H ^b  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Spatial cognition; Spatial memory; Vertical asymmetry; Vertical bias; Virtual environment

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; SPATIAL COGNITION; SPATIAL MEMORY; VERTICAL ASYMMETRY; VERTICAL BIAS;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 77952602525     PISSN: 13875868     EISSN: 15427633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13875860701684138     Document Type: Article

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