Verbal and visual causal arguments

Cognition

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 65-104

  Oestermeier, Uwe ^a   Hesse, Friedrich W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Casual reasoning; External representations; Visual arguments

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE; OBSERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; THEORY; THINKING; VISION;

EID: 0034646593     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-0277(00)00060-3     Document Type: Article

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