Remembering Routes: Streets and Landmarks

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 182-193

  Tom, Ariane Cecile ^a   Tversky, Barbara ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; RECALL; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 84857796681     PISSN: 08884080     EISSN: 10990720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acp.1805     Document Type: Article

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