… This chapter reviews that spatial descriptions spontaneously construct spatial mental
models of the described scenes as a natural consequence of reading for comprehension and …

… ) a spatial mental model, that allowed them to draw accurate maps of the environments and
to respond to the inference statements. The spatial mental models … the spatial mental models …

… termed spatial mental models. Although spatial mental models may not allow accurate metric
… , they do allow spatial perspective-taking and inferences about spatial locations. They are …

… to form a spatial representation (spatial mental model) of fairly elaborate spatial descriptions.
Secondly… for the ability to form spatial mental models of fairly elaborate spatial descriptions. …

… Readers apparently form the same spatial mental models capturing the spatial relations …
question whether readers actually formed spatial mental models. There was some advantage to …

… a single, simple, and typical model but fail to consider other models in which the premises
hold. … the computational model preferred inferences in reasoning with spatial mental models (…

… describing spatial situations, readers construct mental models of scenes in addition to
mental … Mental models contain information about the characters and objects in a scene, their …

… This rebuttal, of course, takes it for granted that individuals do construct mental models of
spatial assertions, and so we will return to this point presently. The model theory postulates that …

… and the second approach, mental model theory. Since this … points of mental model theory of
spatial relational inference in the … restrict ourselves here to the spatial domain, the theory also …

… spatial mental models depend on the representational format. Does this imply that the interesting
questions of how we construct such a spatial mental model, … of spatial mental models is …