Cross-cultural similarities in topological reasoning

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

Volumn 4736 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 32-46

  Ragni, Marco ^a   Tseden, Bolormaa ^a   Knauff, Markus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION THEORY; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CROSS-CULTURAL SIMILARITIES; TOPOLOGICAL REASONING;

TOPOLOGY;

EID: 38049022638     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-74788-8_3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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