Landmark Selection in the Environment: Relationships with Object Characteristics and Sense of Direction

Spatial Cognition and Computation

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-22

  Ishikawa, Toru ^a   Nakamura, Uiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

cognitive maps; landmark salience; route navigation; wayfinding

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE MAPS; DIFFERENT EFFECTS; LANDMARK SALIENCE; LANDMARK SELECTION; OBJECT CHARACTERISTICS; ROUTE NAVIGATION; SENSE OF DIRECTIONS; WAY-FINDING;

PHYSICAL PROPERTIES;

EID: 84861157393     PISSN: 13875868     EISSN: 15427633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13875868.2011.581773     Document Type: Article

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