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What makes a route appear longer? An experimental perspective on features, route segmentation, and distance knowledge

Petra Jansen-Osmann Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf , Düsseldorf, Germany
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Bettina Berendt Humboldt University Berlin , Berlin, Germany
Pages 1390-1414 | Received 02 Feb 2004, Accepted 15 Nov 2004, Published online: 17 Feb 2007

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