Mental models and the mind
Subtitle: current developments in cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy of mind
By: edited by Carsten Held, Markus Knauff, Gottfried Vosgerau.
Contributors: Held, Carsten.; Knauff, Markus.; Vosgerau, Gottfried.
Series: Advances in psychology ;; 138; Advances in psychology (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ;; 138.
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9780444520791
Subjects: Cognitive psychology -- Congresses; Cognitive neuroscience -- Congresses; Philosophy of mind -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Based on a workshop held in summer 2003 at the University of Freiburg.
Table of contents: title: Mental models, sentential reasoning, and illusory inferences / P.N. Johnson-Laird; title: Interaction of knowledge and working memory in reasoning about relations / A. Vandierendonck, V. Dierckx & H. Van der Beken; title: Mental models in learning situations / N.M. Seel; title: Resolving valid multiple model inferences activates a lift hemisphere network / R.L. Waechter & Goel; title: A neuro-cognitive theory of relational reasoning with mental models and visual images / M. Knauff; title: Pictures, perception, and mental models  M. Pauen; title: Language processing : construction of mental models or more? / B. Hemforth & L. Konieczny; title: Visual imagery, mental models, and reasoning / V. Gottschling; title: Mental models as objectual representations / C. Held; title: The perceptual nature of mental models / G. Vosgerau.