The role of landmark modality and familiarity in human wayfinding

Swiss Journal of Psychology

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 205-213

  Hamburger, Kai ^a   Röser, Florian ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acoustic landmarks; Semantic landmarks; Spatial cognition; Visual landmarks; Working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84911211981     PISSN: 14210185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1024/1421-0185/a000139     Document Type: Article

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