Readers of stories construct mental models of the situation and characters described. They
infer causal connections relating characters' actions to their goals. They also focus attention …

There has been unprecedented interest in recent years in questions pertaining to accuracy
and distortion in memory. This interest, catalyzed in part by real-life problems, marks a …

Let's start from scratch in thinking about what memory is for, and consequently, how it works.
Suppose that memory and conceptualization work in the service of perception and action. In …

Integrating a discussion of the application of quantitative methods with practical examples,
this book explains the philosophy of the new quantitative methodologies and contrasts them …

The metaphor of a" cognitive map" has attracted wide interest since it was first proposed in
the late 1940s. Researchers from fields as diverse as psychology, geography, and urban …

In order to bridge interdisciplinary differences in Presence research and to establish
connections between Presence and “older” concepts of psychology and communication, a …

Although cognitive map is a popular metaphor for people's mental representations of
environments, as it is typically conceived, it is often too restrictive. Two other metaphors for …

Construal-level theory proposes that increasing the reported spatial distance of events leads
individuals to represent the events by their central, abstract, global features (high-level …

Orientation is a fundamental mental function that processes the relations between the
behaving self to space (places), time (events), and person (people). Behavioral and …

Semantic priming has been a focus of research in the cognitive sciences for more than thirty
years and is commonly used as a tool for investigating other aspects of perception and …