Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier, 2006.

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Additional Authors

• Held, Carsten.
• Knauff, Markus.
• Vosgerau, Gottfried.

Description

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

Series Statement

Advances in psychology ; 138

Uniform Title

Advances in psychology (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 138.

Subjects

• Cognitive neuroscience > Congresses
• Mental models
• Philosophy of mind > Congresses
• Cognitive psychology > Congresses

Note

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

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN

0444520791 (alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2005057910
• 9780444520791

OCLC

• ocm62307593
• SCSB-5247197

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries