Mental Models in Discourse Processing and Reasoning (eBook)

C. Habel, G. Rickheit (Autoren)

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1999 | 1. Auflage
418 Seiten
Elsevier Science (Verlag)
978-0-08-053622-4 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Inhalt

Cover 1
Contents 6
Introduction 8
Part I: Fundamentals of Mental Models 14
Chapter 1. Mental models: Some answers, some questions, some suggestions 16
Chapter 2. What's in a mental model? 48
Chapter 3. What are mental models made of? 64
Chapter 4. Why mental models must be embodied 84
Part II: Mental Models in Discourse Processing 98
Chapter 5. Taking the functional aspect of mental models as a starting point for studying discourse comprehension 100
Chapter 6. Cognitive aspects of coordination processes 120
Chapter 7. Task-dependent construction of mental models as a basis for conceptual change 138
Chapter 8. Grounding mental models – Subconceptual dynamics in the resolution of linguistic reference in discourse 176
Chapter 9. On the duality and on the integration of propositional and spatial representations 202
Chapter 10. Cognitive modelling of vision and speech understanding 220
Part III: Mental Models in Reasoning and Problem Solving 244
Chapter 11. Mental models of spatial relations and transformations from language 246
Chapter 12. A semantics for model-based spatial reasoning 266
Chapter 13. Mental models in deductive, modal, and probabilistic reasoning 306
Chapter 14. The construction of preferred mental models in reasoning with interval relations 340
Chapter 15. Parts and wholes and their relations 366
Chapter 16. Concessives and mental models 390
Authors 412
Author Index 414
Subject Index 422

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.10.1999
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Test in der Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• ISBN-10: 0-08-053622-0 / 0080536220
• ISBN-13: 978-0-08-053622-4 / 9780080536224