… In order to demonstrate the combination of both techniques and some of the spatial properties
of mental representations, we describe briefly three of our earlier experiments (Wagener & …

… extent to which patterns of performance in a particular task are produced by the structure
and contents of the mental representation or by retrieval and inference processes acting on the …

… of the text plus rules of spatial inference, or by comparison to a mental model of the situation
… We proposed earlier that the mental representations subjects construct from these types of …

… program that models our theory of spatial inference. The program builds up an internal spatial
array as a function of the propositional representations of the premises presented to it, but …

… mental imagery we argue that the mental representation for information from texts may
take on a spatial … between the mental representation of a text and inference processes that …

… In all four of their studies, participants made spatial inferences in either perspective with
equal speed and accuracy. A later study (Taylor and Tversky, 1996) found that participants …

… to inference questions from the read perspective as from the new perspective, suggesting that
inference questions are verified against a representation … different mental representations? …

… Apparently, this effect did not show up in distance-estimation errors because subjects’
memories contained enough metric information to allow accurate inferences. One point of concern …

… model involves mainly VWM and is thus impaired by the concurrent verbal task, ie, participants
draw inferences from the representation mainly when they are prompted to do so by the …

… of bygone events; and spatial navigation often includes simulations of … mental time travel,
and spatial navigation as a form of mental … may construct a mental representation of a target's …