Mental models and the mind : current developments in cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy of mind / edited by Carsten Held, Markus Knauff, Gottfried Vosgerau.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Held, Carsten.

Knauff, Markus.

Vosgerau, Gottfried.

Series:

Advances in psychology (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 138.

Advances in psychology (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cognitive psychology--Congresses.

Cognitive psychology.

Cognitive neuroscience--Congresses.

Cognitive neuroscience.

Philosophy of mind--Congresses.

Philosophy of mind.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

vi, 279 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier, 2006.

Contents:

Mental models, sentential reasoning, and illusory inferences / P.N. Johnson-Laird

Interaction of knowledge and working memory in reasoning about relations / A. Vandierendonck, V. Dierckx & H. Van der Beken

Mental models in learning situations / N.M. Seel

Resolving valid multiple model inferences activates a left hemisphere network / R.L. Waechter & V. Goel

A neuro-cognitive theory of relational reasoning with mental models and visual images / M. Knauff

Pictures, perception, and mental models / K. Rehkämper

Emotion, decision, and mehtal models / M. Pauen

Language processing : construction of mental models or more? / B. Hemforth & L. Konieczny

Visual imagery, mental models, and reasoning / V. Gottschling

Mental models as objectual representations / C. Held

The perceptual nature of mental models / G. Vosgerau.

Notes:

Based on a workshop held in summer 2003 at the University of Freiburg.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0444520791

OCLC:

62307593

Publisher Number:

9780444520791

Online:

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