Spatial knowledge of geographical globes: Evidence of vertical alignment effects.
This study investigated human spatial memory of geographical globes. In two experiments, participants studied locations presented on a three-dimensional globe. Subsequently, participants' knowledge of the locations was tested employing two types of pointing task. Directional judgments from imagined...
| Publicado en: | British Journal of Psychology Vol. 99; no. 3; pp. 395 - 412 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
August 2008
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