How are the locations of objects in the environment represented in memory?

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Volumn 2685, Issue , 2003, Pages 174-191

  McNamara, Timothy P ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; SENSORY PERCEPTION;

HUMAN SPATIAL MEMORY; SPATIAL COGNITION;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

EID: 8344251021     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45004-1_11     Document Type: Conference Paper

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