Effects of age and sex in mental rotation and spatial learning from virtual environments

Journal of Individual Differences

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 78-82

  Schoenfeld, Robby ^a   Lehmann, Wolfgang ^b   Leplow, Bernd ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Age differences; Place learning; Sex differences; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953720818     PISSN: 16140001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1614-0001/a000014     Document Type: Article

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