Spatial reasoning with external visualizations: What matters is what you see, not whether you interact

Cognitive Science

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1099-1132

  Keehner, Madeleine ^a,b   Hegarty, Mary ^a   Cohen, Cheryl ^a   Khooshabeh, Peter ^a   Montello, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Active passive; Distributed cognition; Human experimentation; Human computer interaction; Individual differences; Interactivity; Metacognition; Psychology; Situated cognition; Spatial ability

Indexed keywords

EID: 56349090561     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03640210801898177     Document Type: Article

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