The psychological validity of qualitative spatial reasoning in one dimension

Spatial Cognition and Computation

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 167-188

  Knauff, Markus ^a   Strube, Gerhard ^a   Jola, Corinne ^b   Rauh, Reinhold ^a   Schlieder, Christoph ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Interval relations; Mental images; Mental models; Psychological validity; Qualitative spatial reasoning

Indexed keywords

INTERVAL RELATIONS; MENTAL IMAGES; MENTAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGICAL VALIDITY; QUALITATIVE SPATIAL REASONING;

EID: 14744281881     PISSN: 13875868     EISSN: 15427633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15427633scc0402_3     Document Type: Article

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