How people extract information from graphs: Evidence from a sentence-graph verification paradigm

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

Volumn 1889, Issue , 2000, Pages 149-161

  Feeney, Aidan ^a   Hola, Ala K W ^a   Liversedge, Simon P ^a   Findlay, John M ^a   Metcalf, Robert ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

BAR GRAPHS; EXTRACT INFORMATIONS; GRAPH COMPREHENSIONS; VERBAL INFORMATION; WRITTEN DESCRIPTION;

GRAPHIC METHODS;

EID: 84942914796     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-44590-0_16     Document Type: Conference Paper

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