Selecting landmarks in novel environments

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 184-191

  Miller, Jared ^a   Carlson, Laura ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Landmarks; Navigation; Perceptual features; Route; Salience; Spatial features; Spatial language

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER INTERFACE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; HUMAN; LEARNING; ORIENTATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECOGNITION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; WALKING;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; HUMANS; ORIENTATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPACE PERCEPTION; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; WALKING;

EID: 79951858200     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-010-0038-9     Document Type: Article

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