Spatial memory: The role of egocentric and allocentric frames of reference

Spatial Memory: Visuospatial Processes, Cognitive Performance and Developmental Effects

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 51-75

  Ruggiero, Gennaro ^a   Iachini, Tina ^a   Ruotolo, Francesco ^a   Senese, Vincenzo Paolo ^a  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

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