Understanding and learning virtual spaces

Cognitive Mapping: Past, Present and Future

Volumn , Issue , 2018, Pages 108-124

  Peruch, Patrick ^a   Gaunet, Florence ^a   Thinus Blanc, Catherine ^a   Loomis, Jack ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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