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Why a diagram is (sometimes) worth ten thousand words
- Cognitive Science
, 1987
"... We distinguish diagrammatic from sentential paper-and-pencil representationsof information by developing alternative models of information-processing systems that are informationally equivalent and that can be characterized as sentential or diagrammatic. Sentential representations are sequential, li ..."
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, like the propositions in a text. Dlogrammotlc representations ore indexed by location in a plane. Dio-grommatic representations also typically display information that is only implicit in sententiol representations and that therefore has to be computed, sometimes at great cost, to make it explicit