1 Mental Models: Some answers, some questions, some suggestions

Advances in Psychology

Volumn 128, Issue C, 1999, Pages 9-40

  Rickheit, Gert ^a   Sichelschmidt, Lorenz ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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EID: 77956715312     PISSN: 01664115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4115(99)80045-4     Document Type: Article

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