Capacity limits in diagrammatic reasoning

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1889, Issue , 2000, Pages 194-206

  Hegarty, Mary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTERS;

DIAGRAMMATIC REASONING; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES; LIMITED CAPACITY; MECHANICAL SYSTEMS; PRODUCTION SYSTEM; SPATIAL ABILITIES; TASK DECOMPOSITION;

ANIMATION;

EID: 23044517847     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-44590-0_19     Document Type: Conference Paper

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