Not all locations are created equal: Exploring how adults hide and search for objects

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Legge, Eric L G ^a   Spetch, Marcia L ^a   Cenkner, Andrew ^a   Bulitko, Vadim ^a   Anderson, Craig ^a   Brown, Matthew ^a   Heth, Donald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DARKNESS; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HIDING STRATEGY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PLACE PREFERENCE; SEARCHING STRATEGY; TRAVEL; VIRTUAL REALITY; ADOLESCENT; COMPUTER INTERFACE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BEHAVIOR; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860992375     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0036993     Document Type: Article

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