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Title Knowledge acquisition from text and pictures / edited by Heinz Mandl, Joel R. Levin
Published Amsterdam ; New York : North-Holland ; New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Sole distributors for the U.S.A. and Canada, Elsevier Science Pub. Co., 1989

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Description xv, 329 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Series Advances in psychology ; 58
Advances in psychology (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 58
Contents Problems in knowledge acquisition from text and pictures / Sylvie Molitor, Steffen-Peter Ballstaedt & Heinz Mandl -- Presentation of information by media and its effect on mental models / Norbert M. Seel & Peter Strittmatter -- Knowledge from text and picture : a neuropsychological perspective / Martha J. Farah -- Learning from texts and pictures : reflections on a meta-level / Gavriel Salomon -- A transfer-appropriate-processing perspective of pictures in prose / Joel R. Levin -- Understanding visual and verbal messages / Patricia Baggett -- The design and use of instructional graphics / William Winn -- Towards a graphic ecology / Michael Macdonald-Ross -- When good pictures fail : an information-processing approach to the effect of illustrations / Bernd Weidenmann
Understanding machines from text and diagrams / Mary Hegarty & Marcel Adam Just -- Visualization by pictorial analogies in understanding expository text / L.J. Issing, J. Hannemann, & J. Haack -- Two functions of diagrams in problem solving by analogy / Mary L. Gick -- Developmental studies of text-picture interactions in the perception of animated cartoons with text / Géry D'Ydewalle & Johan Van Rensbergen -- The processing of texts describing spatial configuations / Guy Denhière & Michel Denis -- Trends in the delayed use of information from an illustrated text / Joan Peeck -- Intercultural experiments as a research tool in the study of cognitive skill acquisition : Japanese character recognition and eye movements in non-Japanese subjects / Kazuo Koga & Rudolf Groner
Analysis Knowledge Acquisition Role of human cognition & perception
Notes Includes indexes
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Human information processing.
Imagery (Psychology)
Imagination.
Learning, Psychology of.
Reading, Psychology of.
Visual learning.
Author Levin, Joel R.
Mandl, Heinz.
LC no. 89030778
ISBN 0444873538