Development and validation of a self-report measure of environmental spatial strategies;Entwicklung und validierung eines fragebogens zu räumlichen strategien

Diagnostica

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 111-125

  Münzer, Stefan ^a   Hölscher, Christoph ^b  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Institute of Computer Science and Social Research   (Germany)

Author keywords

Environmental spatial cognition; Environmental spatial strategies; Individual differences; Spatial ability; Spatial learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960439584     PISSN: 00121924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1026/0012-1924/a000040     Document Type: Article

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