Formal notations are diagrams: Evidence from a production task

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2033-2040

  Landy, David ^a   Goldstone, Robert L ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MATHEMATICAL SYMBOL; MEMORY; SKILL; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

EID: 38149020581     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03192935     Document Type: Article

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