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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
- Series:
- Advances in psychology (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 138.
- Advances in psychology ; 138
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cognitive psychology--Congresses.
- Cognitive psychology.
- Cognitive neuroscience--Congresses.
- Cognitive neuroscience.
- Philosophy of mind--Congresses.
- Philosophy of mind.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (287 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- ""Cognitive psychology,"" ""cognitive neuroscience,"" and ""philosophy of mind"" are names for three very different scientific fields, but they label aspects of the same scientific goal: to understand the nature of mental phenomena. Today, the three disciplines strongly overlap under the roof of the cognitive sciences. The book's purpose is to present views from the different disciplines on one of the central theories in cognitive science: the theory of mental models. Cognitive psychologists report their research on the representation and processing of mental models in human memory. Cognitive
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Preface; Contributors; General Introduction; Part I: Cognitive Psychology; Introduction; Mental Models, Sentential Reasoning, and Illusory Inferences 27; Interaction of Knowledge and Working Memory in Reasoning About Relations; Mental Models in Learning Situations; Part II: Cognitive Neuroscience; Introduction; Resolving Valid Multiple Model Inferences Activates a Left Hemisphere Network; A Neuro-Cognitive Theory of Relational Reasoning with Mental Models and Visual Images; Part III: Perception, Emotion, and Language; Introduction; Pictures, Perception, and Mental Models
- Emotion, Decision, and Mental ModelsLanguage Processing: Construction of Mental Models or More?; Part IV: Philosophy of Mind; Introduction; Visual Imagery, Mental Models, and Reasoning; Mental Models as Objectual Representations; The Perceptual Nature of Mental Models 255 G. Vosgerau; Index
- Notes:
- Based on a workshop held in summer 2003 at the University of Freiburg.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-63116-3
- 9786610631162
- 0-08-045901-3
- OCLC:
- 85837110
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