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How do removal and clustering, as two distinct abstraction operations over irrelevant details in symbolic explanations, differ in their effects on human understanding versus cognitive effort?
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The Dual Role of Abstracting over the Irrelevant in Symbolic Explanations: Cognitive Effort vs. Understanding
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