Mental representations of spatial relations

TP McNamara - Cognitive psychology, 1986 - Elsevier
mental functioning. The research reported in this article focused on a specific problem in
spatial cognition; viz., how spatial relations … of the mental representation of spatial relations and …

Mental representations of perspective and spatial relations from diagrams and models.

DJ Bryant, B Tversky - Journal of Experimental Psychology …, 1999 - psycnet.apa.org
… In the first experiment, we examined mental representations spontaneously established …
to interpret the diagrams and models on the mental representations established. In the final two …

Mental representations of spatial and nonspatial relations

TP McNamara, LL LeSueur - The Quarterly Journal of …, 1989 - Taylor & Francis
… by these nonspatial relations as they are by spatial relations. Indeed, spatial propinquity often
… might expect nonspatial relations to affect the formation and utilization of spatial memories. …

The mental representation of spatial descriptions

K Mani, PN Johnson-Laird - Memory & Cognition, 1982 - Springer
… We have here assumed that subjects are likely to form symmetrical mental models of spatial
relations, so that D will indeed be roughly the same distance from A that E is from B; people …

Mental representation, conceptual spaces and metaphors

P Gärdenfors - Synthese, 1996 - Springer
… learned by adopting Newton's conceptual space in our mental representations. The most
drastic changes in science occur when the underlying conceptual space is changed. I believe …

Preferred mental models in reasoning about spatial relations

G Jahn, M Knauff, PN Johnson-Laird - Memory & cognition, 2007 - Springer
… , is mental models of spatial relations. Individuals have a natural tendency to construct them
in order to make sense of spatial … the nature of mental models representing spatial relations. …

[图书][B] Spatial cognition: The structure and development of mental representations of spatial relations

DR Olson, E Bialystok - 2014 - books.google.com
… of the relations between the mental representation of spatial information, which … spatial
lexical terms such as top, bottom, over, under and were convinced that the mental representation

Spatial mental models

B Tversky - Psychology of learning and motivation, 1991 - Elsevier
… Is the mental representation of spatial relations induced by the two types of descriptions …
We proposed earlier that the mental representations subjects construct from these types of …

[HTML][HTML] Differences between spatial and visual mental representations

JF Sima, H Schultheis, T Barkowsky - Frontiers in psychology, 2013 - frontiersin.org
… Based on the literature, we expected to find spontaneous eye movements corresponding to
the processed spatial relations when a visual mental representation is employed. In line with …

Expectations, mental representations, and spatial inferences

M Wagener-Wender, KF Wender - Psychology of Learning and Motivation, 1990 - Elsevier
… techniques and some of the spatial properties of mental representations, we describe briefly
… This probably did not include the inferences about spatial relation between objects, such as …