Preferred mental models in reasoning about spatial relations

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2075-2087

  Jahn, Georg ^a   Knauff, Markus ^b   Johnson Laird, P N ^c  

^a CHEMNITZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSERTIVENESS; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL FUNCTION; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; PERCEPTION; PLACE PREFERENCE; PREDICTION; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORY; THINKING; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 38149069558     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03192939     Document Type: Article

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