By
G. Rickheit, Fakultät für Linguistik und Literaturwissenschaft, Universität Bielefeld, Postfach 10 01 31, Bielefeld, Germany.
C. Habel, Arbeitsbereich WSV, Fachbereich Informatik, Universität Hamburg, Vogt-Kölln-Straβe 30, 22527 Hamburg, Germany.
Description
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.
Included in series
Advances in Psychology
Audience:
For all those working in the linguistics, psycholinguistics, psychology, cognitive science, informatics, philosophy and artifical intelligence fields.
