%0 Journal Article %1 bauer93 %A Bauer, M. I. %A Laird, Johnson J. %D 1993 %J Psychological Science %K 2106 representation diagram psychology reasoning %N 6 %P 372--378 %T How diagrams can improve reasoning %V 4

@article{bauer93, added-at = {2006-09-09T19:24:16.000+0200}, author = {Bauer, M. I. and Laird, Johnson J.}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2eaa4b2de2a35002c94ef5a87f1d9c9f7/neilernst}, citeulike-article-id = {111748}, comment = {- "barwise and etchemendy (92) have argued that the truth behind the adage that a picture is worth a thousand words is that diagrams and pictures are good at presenting a wealth of specific conjunctive information. - 'It is much harder to use them to present indefinite information, negative information, or disjunctive information'" - diagrams are unlikely to affect reasoning performance, since once the information is extracted (either from a sentence or the diagram) the same chain of events must occur - talks about model theory (cognition) - disjunctions harder to think about than conjunctions (more possible states) - perfomance slows as more models are added, and working memory is overwhelmed - quality of diagrams plays a large part - adds extra cognitive load to user (as opposed to reading, most already know how). Need to become graphically literate - problem in reasoning is to keep track of alternate states}, description = {sdasda}, interhash = {4f99c3658640851d3bb538c340624168}, intrahash = {eaa4b2de2a35002c94ef5a87f1d9c9f7}, journal = {Psychological Science}, keywords = {2106 representation diagram psychology reasoning}, number = 6, pages = {372--378}, priority = {0}, timestamp = {2006-09-09T19:24:16.000+0200}, title = {How diagrams can improve reasoning}, volume = 4, year = 1993 }