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Mental Models and the Mind
Current developments in Cognitive Psychology, Neuroscience and Philosophy of Mind
1st Edition, Volume 138 - January 11, 2006
Editors: Carsten Held, Gottfried M-GV Vosgerau, Markus Knauff
Language: English
Hardback ISBN:9780444520791
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eBook ISBN:9780080459011
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"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:…Read more
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"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 neuroscientists demonstrate how the brain processes visual and spatial mental models and which neural processes underlie visual and spatial thinking. Philosophers report their ideas about the role of mental models in relation to perception, emotion, representation, and intentionality. The single articles have different and mutually complementing goals: to introduce new empirical methods and approaches, to report new experimental results, and to locate competing approaches for their interpretation in the cross-disciplinary debate. The book is strongly interdisciplinary in character. It is especially addressed to researchers in any field related to mental models theory as both a reference book and an overview of present research on the topic in other disciplines. However, it is also an ideal reader for a specialized graduate course.
Examines the theory of mental models from the perspectives of cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience and philosophy of the mind
Introduces new empirical methods, experimental results, and interdisciplinary yet complementary approaches
Serves as a reference book and an overview of current research
Cognitive psychologists, researchers and undergraduate and graduate students
Part I: Cognitive Psychology. Introduction. 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). Part II: Cognitive Neuroscience. Introduction. 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). Part III: Perception, Emotion, and Language. Introduction. Pictures, Perception, and Mental Models. (K. Rehkamper). Emotion, Decision, and Mental Models. (M. Pauen). Language Processing: Construction of Mental Models or More? (B. Hemforth, L. Konieczny). Part IV: Philosophy of Mind. Introduction. Visual Imagery, Mental Models, and Reasoning. (V. Gottschling). Mental Models as Objectual Representations. (C. Held). The Perceptual Nature of Mental Models. (G. Vosgerau). Index.
No. of pages: 286
Language: English
Edition: 1
Volume: 138
Published: January 11, 2006
Imprint: North Holland
Hardback ISBN: 9780444520791
eBook ISBN: 9780080459011
CH
Carsten Held
Affiliations and expertise
Universitaet Erfurt, Germany
GV
Gottfried M-GV Vosgerau
Affiliations and expertise
Eberhard Karls Universitaet, Germany
MK
Markus Knauff
Affiliations and expertise
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernectics, Germany