How brains make mental models

Studies in Computational Intelligence

Volumn 314, Issue , 2010, Pages 447-461

  Thagard, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

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EID: 77957734624     PISSN: 1860949X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-15223-8_25     Document Type: Conference Paper

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