When do objects become landmarks? A VR study of the effect of task relevance on spatial memory

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Han, Xue ^a   Byrne, Patrick ^b   Kahana, Michael ^c   Becker, Suzanna ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CAR DRIVING; ENVIRONMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECOGNITION; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VIRTUAL REALITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; MEMORY; METHODOLOGY; NEUROIMAGING; ORIENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ATTENTION; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MEMORY; NEUROIMAGING; ORIENTATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 84860619417     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0035940     Document Type: Article

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