Different “routes” to a cognitive map: dissociable forms of spatial knowledge derived from route and cartographic map learning

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1106-1117

  Zhang, Hui ^a   Zherdeva, Ksenia ^a   Ekstrom, Arne D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Map learning; Route learning; Spatial knowledge; Spatial memory; Spatial navigation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPATIAL LEARNING; SPATIAL MEMORY; SPATIAL ORIENTATION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL LEARNING; SPATIAL MEMORY; SPATIAL NAVIGATION;

EID: 84907686932     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: 15325946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13421-014-0418-x     Document Type: Article

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