The role of slope in human reorientation

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6222 LNAI, Issue , 2010, Pages 32-40

  Nardi, Daniele ^a   Newcombe, Nora S ^a   Shipley, Thomas F ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

reorientation; sex differences; slope or geographical slant; spatial abilities; vertical dimension

Indexed keywords

REORIENTATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SLOPE OR GEOGRAPHICAL SLANT; SPATIAL ABILITIES; VERTICAL DIMENSIONS;

EID: 77957088748     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-14749-4_6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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