Head for the hills: The influence of environmental slant on spatial memory organization

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 774-780

  Kelly, Jonathan W ^a  

^a Department of Statistics Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence Iowa State University 2438 Osborn Dr Ames   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental slant; Reference frame; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; ORIENTATION; RECALL;

ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; ORIENTATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 79959924184     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-011-0100-2     Document Type: Article

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