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Mental Models is a book published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., in 1983 ISBN 0-89859-242-9. It was edited by Dedre Gentner and Albert L. Stevens, both employees of Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Inc. at the time. It appeared at about the same time as a book by the same name by Philip Johnson-Laird. According to the acknowledgment of the book, it…
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The extracted context around Mental Models shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Mental Models → Alan Bundy, Albert, Ambiguities, And, Andrea, Applied Psychology Unit, Bolt Beranek, Calculate Radii, Cambridge, Carnegie Mellon UniversityFlowing Waters, Conceptual Models, Dedre Gentner, Development CenterConceptual Entities, Donald, EdinburghWhen Heat, Edwin Hutchins, Electricity, EnglandQualitative Reasoning About Space, Evolution, Fibres Another extracted example is Mental Models → American Anthropologist, Instructional Science, Psychology, The American Journal, Upon, Whether. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.
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TTTA extracted 85 structured relationships around Mental Models. Examples in this analysis include Mental Models → is a → book published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates and American Anthropologist → instance of → Mental Models received reviews from journals. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.
| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mental Models | is a | book published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates | 0.90 | text |
| American Anthropologist | instance of | Mental Models received reviews from journals | 0.80 | text |
| Mental Models | related to Chapters | Some Observations | 0.60 | section |
| Mental Models | related to Chapters | Donald | 0.60 | section |
| Mental Models | related to Chapters | Norman | 0.60 | section |
| Mental Models | related to Chapters | UCSD Dr | 0.60 | section |
| Mental Models | related to Chapters | So | 0.60 | section |
| Mental Models | related to Chapters | And | 0.60 | section |
| Mental Models | related to Chapters | Phenomenology | 0.60 | section |
| Mental Models | related to Chapters | Evolution | 0.60 | section |
| Mental Models | related to Chapters | Intuition | 0.60 | section |
| Mental Models | related to Chapters | Andrea | 0.60 | section |
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For Mental Models, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Mental Models with Chapters. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.
TTTA analyzes the structure around Mental Models to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Literary Connections, Science & Products, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.
Source: Wikipedia — Mental Models · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout