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Amsterdam: ELSEVIER, 1999. - 419 p.
In this interdisciplinary discussion on Mental Models the group of researchers from various areas in cognitive science tackled the following questions: What is a mental model? What are the prospects and limitations in applying the mental model notion in cognitive science? How can the ideas on the nature of mental models and their mode of operation be empirically substantiated? The primary goal of the research group was to work out a definition of mental models that embraces the overall use of this construct in cognitive science as well as the more specific conceptions used in particular research domains such as cognitive linguistics. Theoretical claims about the properties of mental models were discussed and their tenability evaluated against the empirical evidence.CONTENTSGert Rickheit und Christopher Habel Part I: Fundamentals of Mental Models Mental models: Some answers, some questions, some suggestions Gert Rickheit and Lorenz Sichelschmidt What's in a mental model? Alan Garnham What are mental models made of? Anthony J. Sanford and Linda M. Moxey Why mental models must be embodied Art GlenbergPart H: Mental Models in Discourse ProcessingTaking the functional aspect of mental models as a starting point for studying discourse comprehension . Barbara Kaup, Stephanie Kelter and Christopher HabelCognitive aspects of coordination processes . Gert Rickheit and Heike WrobelTask-dependent construction of mental models as a basis for conceptual change Wolfgang Schnotz and Achim PreuflOn the duality and on the integration of propositional and spatial representations Christian Freksa and Thomas Barkowsky 10. Cognitive modelling of vision and speech understanding Bernd Hildebrandt, Reinhard Moratz, Gert Rickheit and Gerhard SagererPart HI: Mental Models in Reasoning and Problem Solving 11. Mental models of spatial relations and transformations from language Barbara Tversky, Jospeph Kim and Andrew Cohen 12. A semantics for model-based spatial reasoning Janice Glasgow and Andrew Malton 13. Mental models in deductive, modal, and probabilistic reasoning Patrizia Tabossi, Victoria A. Bell and Philip N. Johnson-Laird 14. The construction of preferred mental models in reasoning with interval relations Christoph Schlieder 15. Parts and wholes and their relations Simone Pribbenow 16. Concessives and mental models Ralf Klabunde
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MENTAL MODELS IN DISCOURSE PROCESSING AND REASONING
ADVANCES IN PSYCHOLOGY 128 Editor:
G. E. STELMACH
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MENTAL MODELS IN DISCOURSE PROCESSING AND REASONING
editedby Gert RICKHEIT Fakultiit fiir Linguistik und Literaturwissenschaft Universit6t Bielefeld Bielefeld. Germany
Christopher HABEL Arbeitsbereich WSV Fachbereich Informatik Universitiit Hamburg Hamburg, Germany
1999 ELSEVIER Amsterdam- Lausanne- New York-Oxford- Shannon- Singapore-Tokyo
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