Preferred and alternative mental models in spatial reason

Spatial Cognition and Computation

Volumn 5, Issue 2-3, 2005, Pages 239-269

  Rauh, Reinhold ^a   Knauff, Markus ^a   Schlieder, Christoph ^b   Hagen, Cornelius ^b   Kuss, Thomas ^a   Strube, Gerhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conceptual neighborhood; Interval relations; Mental model; Model revision; Spatial reasoning

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL NEIGHBORHOOD; INTERVAL RELATIONS; MENTAL MODEL; MODEL REVISIONS; SPATIAL REASONING;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 34248364360     PISSN: 13875868     EISSN: 15427633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13875868.2005.9683805     Document Type: Article

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