Mental model processes in working memory : implications for usability design.

• Main Author: Patsula, Peter Joseph.
• Other Authors: Detenber, Benjamin Hill
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: DRNTU::Library and information science::Libraries::Information storage and retrieval
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/1893
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Grounded in cognitive load theory, levels of processing theory, the facets of WM framework, and dual-process research, this thesis proposes two theoretical propositions related to mental model production in WM and encoding to LTM. The first proposition, "structure processing," posits a dom...