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Craik, K. (1943)  The Nature of Explanation.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University  Press.

Oakhill, J., and  Garnham, A. (Eds.) (1996) Mental Models in Cognitive Science. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence  Erlbaum Associates. Hove, Sussex,  UK:  Erlbaum (UK) Taylor & Francis.

Garnham, A., and Oakhill, J.V. (1996) The mental models theory of language comprehension.  In Britton, B.K., and Graesser, A.C. (Eds.)     Models of  Understanding Text.  Hillsdale,       NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum  Associates. pp. 313-339.

Gentner, D., and Stevens, A.L., Eds. (1983)  Mental Models.  Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Halford, G.S. (1993)  Children's Understanding:  The Development of Mental Models.  Hillsdale,  NJ:  Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Halpern, J.Y., and Vardi, M.Y. (1991)  Model checking vs. theorem proving: a manifesto.   In Allen, J.A., Fikes, R., and Sandewall, E. (Eds.)  Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning: Proceedings of the Second International Conference.   San Mateo, CA: Morgan  Kaufmann.  pp. 325-334.

Johnson-Laird, P.N. (1983)  Mental Models:  Towards a Cognitive Science of Language, Inference, and Consciousness.  Cambridge: Cambridge  University  Press; Cambridge,  MA:  Harvard University Press.

Johnson-Laird, P.N., and Byrne, R.M.J. (1991) Deduction.  Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Marr, D. (1982)  Vision:  A Computational Investigation into the Human Representation and Processing of Visual Information.  San Francisco:  W.H. Freeman.

Rogers, Y., Rutherford, A., and Bibby, P.A. (Eds.) Models in the Mind: Theory, Perspective and Application.  London: Academic Press.

Metzler, J., and Shepard, R.N. (1982)  Transformational studies of the internal representations of  three-dimensional objects.  In Shepard,  R.N., and Cooper, L.A.  Mental Images and Their Transformations.   Cambridge, MA:  MIT Press.  pp. 25-71.

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