The familiarity factor in spatial research
- 1 March 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Hindawi Limited in New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development
- Vol. 1982 (15) , 19-30
- https://doi.org/10.1002/cd.23219821504
Abstract
Researchers frequently refer to the familiarity of an environment when discussing a subject's performance on a spatial task. But what exactly is familiarity, and how does it come about?Keywords
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