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
