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    "pk": 31695,
    "title": "The Comprehension of Complex Graphics: Facilitating Effects of Text on Integration and Inference-Making",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "The goal of the present research was to\ninvestigate the effects on comprehension and\ninference-making when prior knowledge about\na building was manipulated by means of a text.\nThe text presented an expert-like \"walk-\nthrough\" description of the building, as well as\nexemplars of the eight types of semantic\ninformation previously fovmd to be employed in\nthe comprehension of architectural plans. This\nwas motivated by previous research which: 1)\nfound that the nature of the encoding process is\nrelated to both specific prior knowledge of the\nbuilding and to expertise, and 2) suggested that\nexperts' representations of the building\nincluded much more 3-dimensional infonnation\nwhereas sub-experts' representations of the\nbuilding were much more similar to the 2-\ndimensional plans used to depict the building.\nResults indicated that the text had\npositive effects on specific types of semantic\ninformation acquired about the building, and\nthat inferences on this information permitted\nthe development of mental models which\nincluded a greater number of 3-dimensional\naspects of the building. There were also\nimportant findings related to expertise which\nsuggest that the search, pattern-recognition,\nand inference-making operators applied by\nnovices were different from those applied by\nexperts.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "section": "Submitted Presentations",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/95c2j0d8",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Janice",
            "middle_name": "D.",
            "last_name": "Gobert",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Massachusetts",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "1993-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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