People construct simplified mental representations to plan

MK Ho, D Abel, CG Correa, ML Littman, JD Cohen… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
… In our framework, each obstacle corresponds to a cause–effect relationship, ϕ i —that is,
attempting to move into the space occupied by the obstacle and then being blocked. This is …

Children's Verabal Representation of Spatial Location

JR Johnston - Spatial cognition, 2022 - api.taylorfrancis.com
… these spatial relationships. IN … of spatial language reduce to that of underlying nonverbal
thought? Claims that linguistic schemes are one of the two basic sorts of mental representation

What explains the relationship between spatial and mathematical skills? A review of evidence from brain and behavior

Z Hawes, D Ansari - Psychonomic bulletin & review, 2020 - Springer
… ) Spatial representation of numbers account, (2) shared neural processing account, (3) spatial
… One possibility is that automatic SNAs are an artefact of numerical-spatial relations formed …

Neural underpinnings of numerical and spatial cognition: An fMRI meta-analysis of brain regions associated with symbolic number, arithmetic, and mental rotation

Z Hawes, HM Sokolowski, CB Ononye… - … & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
… Mathematics is frequently conceived of and expressed in terms of spatial relations.
Historically, many mathematical discoveries have made use of the human capacity to think and …

Revealing the multidimensional mental representations of natural objects underlying human similarity judgements

MN Hebart, CY Zheng, F Pereira, CI Baker - Nature human behaviour, 2020 - nature.com
… a computational model of mental representations of objects … portion of our mental
representational space. In contrast to … both visual and conceptual mental representations for a …

Knowledge across reference frames: Cognitive maps and image spaces

R Bottini, CF Doeller - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2020 - cell.com
… in spatial representations. … representations of the environment, and image spaces, that
are associated with the parietal cortex and are similar to self-centered spatial relationships. We …

Understanding individual differences in theory of mind via representation of minds, not mental states

JR Conway, C Catmur, G Bird - Psychonomic bulletin & review, 2019 - Springer
… minds in Mind-space explains skill in accurately inferring mental states. … mind representation,
and separately the inference of mental states, can be achieved by adopting a Mind-space

Spatial transformation abilities and their relation to later mathematics performance

A Frick - Psychological Research, 2019 - Springer
… these mental representations during mathematical operations. Thus, a high level of spatial
… Finally, spatial relations tasks involve changing the orientation or location of objects with …

[HTML][HTML] Reflections on dynamics, adaptation and control: a cognitive architecture for mental models

L van Ments, J Treur - Cognitive Systems Research, 2021 - Elsevier
… an internal representation of ‘the other’, in this case the image they have of God. This allows
people to form a real, meaningful relationship with God, and to construct a mental model of …

The psychological reality of practical representation

C Pavese - Philosophical psychology, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
… Some of these representations are mental. It is customary for philosophers to distinguish
two main kinds of mental representations: perceptual representation (eg, vision, auditory, tactile…