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The Map in Our Head Is Not Oriented North: Evidence from a Real-World Environment

Like most physical maps, recent research has suggested that cognitive maps of familiar environments may have a north-up orientation. We demonstrate that north orientation is not a necessary feature of cognitive maps and instead may arise due to coincidental alignment between cardinal directions and...

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Autores principales: Brunyé, Tad T., Burte, Heather, Houck, Lindsay A., Taylor, Holly A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4564159/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26353119
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0135803