Memory for target height is scaled to observer height

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 339-351

  Twedt, Elyssa ^a   Crawford, L Elizabeth ^b   Proffitt, Dennis R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND   (United States)

Author keywords

Body scaling; Embodied cognition; Eye height scaling; Memory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BODY HEIGHT; BODY IMAGE; DECISION MAKING; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; RECALL; RECOGNITION; SELF CONCEPT; VISION;

ASSOCIATION; BODY HEIGHT; BODY IMAGE; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; ORIENTATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SELF CONCEPT; SIZE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84864443097     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: 15325946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13421-011-0166-0     Document Type: Article

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