The efficacy of Euler and Venn diagrams in deductive reasoning: Empirical findings

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

Volumn 6170 LNAI, Issue , 2010, Pages 6-22

  Sato, Yuri ^a   Mineshima, Koji ^a   Takemura, Ryo ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEDUCTIVE REASONING; EMPIRICAL FINDINGS; EULER DIAGRAMS; PRIOR KNOWLEDGE; REASONING PROCESS; REASONING TASKS; VENN DIAGRAMS;

GRAPHIC METHODS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTERS;

EID: 77955812145     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-14600-8_6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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