Orientational manoeuvres in the dark: Dissociating allocentric and egocentric influences on spatial memory

Cognition

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 149-166

  Burgess, Neil ^a,b   Spiers, Hugo J ^c   Paleologou, Eleni ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Frame of reference; Ideothetic; Landmark; Spatial updating; Viewpoint; Visual snapshot

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DARKNESS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPATIAL MEMORY; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; AWARENESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MOTION PERCEPTION; SEX FACTORS; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 9944252296     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2004.01.001     Document Type: Article

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