Cognitive coordinate systems: Accounts of mental rotation and individual differences in spatial ability.
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Cognitive coordinate systems: accounts of mental rotation and individual differences in spatial ability.
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عنوان ژورنال: Psychological Review
سال: 1985
ISSN: 1939-1471,0033-295X
DOI: 10.1037/0033-295x.92.2.137