Learning fine-grained and category information in navigable real-world space

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1026-1040

  Uttal, David H ^a   Friedman, Alinda ^b   Hand, Linda Liu ^a   Warren, Christopher ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; DECISION MAKING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; HUMAN; LEARNING; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; RECALL; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ATTENTION; CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MAPS AS TOPIC; MENTAL RECALL; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 78650647671     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/MC.38.8.1026     Document Type: Article

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