Identifying locations and directions on field and representational mapping tasks: Predictors of success

Spatial Cognition and Computation

Volumn 10, Issue 2-3, 2010, Pages 105-134

  Liben, Lynn S ^a   Myers, Lauren J ^b   Christensen, Adam E ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BRYN MAWR COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Large scale space; Maps; Orientation; Spatial cognition; Wayfinding

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651267267     PISSN: 13875868     EISSN: 15427633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13875860903568550     Document Type: Article

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