Is the map in our head oriented north?

Psychological Science

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 120-125

  Frankenstein, Julia ^a,b   Mohler, Betty J ^a   Bülthoff, Heinrich H ^a,c   Meilinger, Tobias ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c Korea University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

alignment; environmental space; local and global reference frames; map; orientation; reference frame; spatial memory; virtual reality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856457366     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797611429467     Document Type: Article

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