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Mental Models in Discourse Processing and Reasoning

Rickheit, G.; Habel, C.

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Table of contents
  • Cover
  • Contentsv
  • Introduction1
  • Part I: Fundamentals of Mental Models7
  • Chapter 1. Mental models: Some answers, some questions, some suggestions9
  • Chapter 2. What's in a mental model?41
  • Chapter 3. What are mental models made of?57
  • Chapter 4. Why mental models must be embodied77
  • Part II: Mental Models in Discourse Processing91
  • Chapter 5. Taking the functional aspect of mental models as a starting point for studying discourse93
  • Chapter 6. Cognitive aspects of coordination processes113
  • Chapter 7. Task-dependent construction of mental models as a basis for conceptual change131
  • Chapter 8. Grounding mental models – Subconceptual dynamics in the resolution of linguistic refere169
  • Chapter 9. On the duality and on the integration of propositional and spatial representations195
  • Chapter 10. Cognitive modelling of vision and speech understanding213
  • Part III: Mental Models in Reasoning and Problem Solving237
  • Chapter 11. Mental models of spatial relations and transformations from language239
  • Chapter 12. A semantics for model-based spatial reasoning259
  • Chapter 13. Mental models in deductive, modal, and probabilistic reasoning299
  • Chapter 14. The construction of preferred mental models in reasoning with interval relations333
  • Chapter 15. Parts and wholes and their relations359
  • Chapter 16. Concessives and mental models383
  • Authors405
  • Author Index407
  • Subject Index415
Book details
  • Vendor Elsevier S & T
  • SKU 9780444502742
  • ISBN-13 9780080536224
  • Author Rickheit, G.; Habel, C.
  • Category Science
  • Subject History

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In this interdisciplinary discussion on mental models, researchers from various areas in cognitive science tackle 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.

The volume is divided into three parts. Fundamental aspects of mental models are presented in the first section, the following part contains contributions to the function of mental models in discourse processing, and finally problems of mental models in reasoning and problem solving are outlined.