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Working memory components in survey and route spatial text processing

Authors: Francesca Pazzaglia, Chiara Meneghetti, Rossana De Beni, Valerie Gyselinck

Published in: Cognitive Processing | Issue 4/2010

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Imagine you are a tourist walking around an unfamiliar city, and you read in your guidebook that somewhere in the city there is a famous museum of modern art. How do you get there? You stop pedestrians and ask them. Answers may be different. Someone might say: “You need to take the subway, because it’s a long way from here. Go straight on, and then turn right just before the church. Go on for a while and you’ll see the red subway sign in front of you….” …

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Title: Working memory components in survey and route spatial text processing
Authors: Francesca Pazzaglia
Chiara Meneghetti
Rossana De Beni
Valerie Gyselinck
Publication date: 01-11-2010
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published in: Cognitive Processing / Issue 4/2010
Print ISSN: 1612-4782
Electronic ISSN: 1612-4790
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-009-0353-0

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