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    Valérie Gyselinck, Serge Nicolas & Pascale Piolino

  2. University of Bari, Bari, Italy

    Luciana Picucci

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Gyselinck, V., Picucci, L., Nicolas, S. et al. Construction of a spatial mental model from a verbal description or from navigation in a virtual environment. Cogn Process 7 (Suppl 1), 46–48 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-006-0059-5

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