Cognitive mechanisms underlying instructed choice exploration of small city maps

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue FEB, 2015, Pages

  Sakellaridi, Sofia ^a,b   Christova, Peka ^b,c   Christopoulos, Vasileios N ^d   Vialard, Alice ^e   Peponis, John ^e   Georgopoulos, Apostolos P ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Eye fixations; Instructed choice exploration; Map reading; Spatial decision making

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; CITY; COMPUTER; DECISION MAKING; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; EYE FIXATION; EYE POSITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RELATIVE DENSITY; SELECTION BIAS; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA;

EID: 84924402067     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2015.00060     Document Type: Article

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