Toward a comprehensive model of graph comprehension: Making the case for spatial cognition

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

Volumn 4045 LNAI, Issue , 2006, Pages 286-300

  Trickett, Susan Bell ^a   Trafton, J Gregory ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SCIENCE; DATA PROCESSING; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

COMPLEX GRAPHS; GRAPH COMPREHENSION; SPATIAL COGNITION;

GRAPH THEORY;

EID: 33746215235     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11783183_38     Document Type: Conference Paper

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