A language of thought for the mental representation of geometric shapes

M Sablé-Meyer, K Ellis, J Tenenbaum, S Dehaene - Cognitive Psychology, 2022 - Elsevier
… a vast space of mental representations by recursive recombination of preexisting ones.
Hauser, Chomsky and Fitch (Hauser et al., 2002) hypothesized that recursion might be the single …

People construct simplified mental representations to plan

MK Ho, D Abel, CG Correa, ML Littman, JD Cohen… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
… in that representation 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 – 11 . However, this approach generally
assumes that task representations are fixed. Here we propose that task representations can be …

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 …

Quantifying aphantasia through drawing: Those without visual imagery show deficits in object but not spatial memory

WA Bainbridge, Z Pounder, AF Eardley, CI Baker - Cortex, 2021 - Elsevier
… , & Baker, 2019), we examine the nature of aphantasics’ mental representations of visual
stimuli within a large sample, and reveal differences in behavior for object and spatial imagery. …

Cognitive design principles for automated generation of visualizations

B Tversky, M Agrawala, J Heiser, P Lee… - Applied Spatial …, 2020 - taylorfrancis.com
… To reveal the mental representations underlying assembly and to reveal graphic preferences
at the same time, we followed the same general strategy for uncovering cognitive design …

[HTML][HTML] 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 and the shared neural processing account. The
extent to which these various accounts are descriptions … attempt to best represent the research …

[HTML][HTML] Visual spatial reasoning

F Liu, G Emerson, N Collier - Transactions of the Association for …, 2023 - direct.mit.edu
… Each example in the dataset consists of an image and a natural language description that
states a spatial relation of two objects presented in the image (two examples are shown in …

First demonstration of effective spatial training for near transfer to spatial performance and far transfer to a range of mathematics skills at 8 years

KA Gilligan, MSC Thomas, EK Farran - Developmental science, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Mental rotation and spatial scaling were targeted for training in this study. As outlined, these
skills have previously been associated with mathematics achievement in children aged 6–9 …

Mental time travel? A neurocognitive model of event simulation

DR Addis - Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 2020 - Springer
… Although this simulation system can be co-opted to mentally traverse time and space, it is
the ‘mental’ rendering of experience that is the key function of this system and crucial to many …

Mathematical representations

GA Goldin - Encyclopedia of mathematics education, 2020 - Springer
… An exemplary task is the following: Task: Represent the number 23 and explain how you
made it. Different pieces of mathematical knowledge may be involved to answer the task, for …