Micro- and Macroreference Frames: Specifying the Relations Between Spatial Categories in Memory

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 938-957

  Greenauer, Nathan ^a   Waller, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^b MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Human information storage; Spatial memory; Spatial organization; Spatial perception

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; METHODOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBABILITY; SEMANTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROBABILITY; SEMANTICS; SPACE PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954155440     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0019647     Document Type: Article

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