Edited by
Carsten Held, Universitaet Erfurt, Germany
Gottfried Vosgerau, Eberhard Karls Universitaet, Germany
Markus Knauff, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernectics, Germany
Description
"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.
Included in series
Advances in Psychology
Audience:
Cognitive psychologists, researchers and undergraduate and graduate students
