Spatial memory in the real world: Long-term representations of everyday environments

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1401-1408

  Marchette, Steven A ^a   Yerramsetti, Ashok ^a   Burns, Thomas J ^a   Shelton, Amy L ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Memory; Memory organization; Representation; Spatial cognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; LONG TERM MEMORY; ORIENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RECALL;

ADULT; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MEMORY, LONG-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; ORIENTATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80155148429     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: 15325946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13421-011-0108-x     Document Type: Article

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