Cognitive fit between conceptual schemas and internal problem representations: The case of geospatio-temporal conceptual schema comprehension

IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 109-127

  Khatri, Vijay ^a   Vessey, Iris ^b   Ram, Sudha ^c   Ramesh, Venkat ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conceptual modeling; Geospatial database; Geospatio temporal conceptual models; Human associative memory (HAM); Syntactic and semantic comprehension tasks; Temporal database; Theory of cognitive fit

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; INFORMATION THEORY; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEMANTICS;

COGNITIVE FIT; GEOSPATIAL MODELING; GEOSPATIO-TEMPORAL CONCEPTUAL MODELS; HUMAN ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY (HAM); SYNTACTIC AND SEMANTIC COMPREHENSION TASKS; TEMPORAL DATABASE;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

EID: 33744818199     PISSN: 03611434     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPC.2006.875091     Document Type: Article

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