scholarly journals ‘But’ and its role in the building of mental representations

2019 ◽  
pp. 11-20
Author(s):  
Miguel López-Astorga
Keyword(s):  
Mental Models ◽  
Mental Representations ◽  
Semantic Role ◽  
Relevant Aspect ◽  
The Real ◽  
Mental Models Theory

The mental models theory rejects that sentences are linked to logical forms. From its perspective, their most relevant aspect refers to the semantic possibilities that correspond to them. In this way, the theory has analyzed in detail the real semantic role that the traditional connectives in logic can play in reasoning. However, given that logical forms are not important in its framework, in this paper, it is argued that those connectives are not the only operators that the mental models theory should review, and that there are other connectives present in most of the languages in general that can be interesting for it as well. That is the case of ‘but’ in English, which is addressed from the approach of the aforementioned theory here.

Deontic Reasoning, Mental Models Theory and Traffic Signs Information

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina Vargas ◽  
Sergio Moreno-Rios ◽  
Candida Castro ◽  
Geoffrey Underwood
Keyword(s):  
Mental Models ◽  
Traffic Signs ◽  
Deontic Reasoning ◽  
Mental Models Theory

Mental Models: Theory and Application in Human Factors

1989 ◽  
Vol 31 (6) ◽  
pp. 617-634 ◽  
Author(s):  
John R. Wilson ◽  
Andrew Rutherford
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Representation ◽  
Human Factors ◽  
Mental Models ◽  
Psychological Perspective ◽  
Forms Of Knowledge ◽  
Mental Models Theory

This review points out confusion surrounding the concept and use of mental models from the viewpoints of both human factors and psychology. Noted are the ways in which the notion is conceived according to the needs and approaches of different specialties, and the relationships of mental models to other forms of knowledge representation are considered. The manner in which the human factors community has and should utilize the concept in applications across a number of fields is addressed and discussed in relation to the psychological perspective.

“The Uprising” Novel Map. Real and Imaginary Space in Liviu Rebreanu’s Vision

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-97
Author(s):  
Theodor Cepraga
Keyword(s):  
Mental Representations ◽  
Real Space ◽  
Literary Imagination ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
The Real ◽  
Literary Sources ◽  
Geographical Space

Abstract The literary works represent a genuine source for researching and understanding the geographical space. Most of the time, this space is perceived and figured in various ways by the different authors referring to it. When available, the best way to study these mental representations is by using maps created by the authors themselves. This article concentrates on Liviu Rebreanu’s novel “The Uprising” and on the map which helped him to better depict the plot and the characters. The cartographical representation was created by Liviu Rebreanu and was published together with other drafts from the author’s personal archive. The paper analyzes the map using cartographical, historical and literary sources with the aim of understanding how the author reshaped the real space to better suit his literary imagination. In the end, the study explains how these kind of maps could be interpreted using a geocritical approach.

scholarly journals Language and cognition in bilingual production: the real work still lies ahead

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
pp. 895-896 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANTONELLA SORACE
Keyword(s):  
Symbolic Computation ◽  
Mental Representations ◽  
Language Models ◽  
The Real ◽  
Code Mixing ◽  
Real Work ◽  
Generative Language ◽  
Language And Cognition

Goldrick, Putnam and Schwarz (Goldrick, Putnam & Schwarz) argue that code-mixing in bilingual production involves not only combining forms from both languages but also – crucially – integrating grammatical principles with gradient mental representations. They further propose an analysis of a particular case of intrasentential code mixing – doubling constructions – framed within the formalism of Gradient Symbolic Computation. This formalism, in their view, is better suited to accounting for code mixing than other generative language models because it allows the weighting of constraints both in the choice of particular structures within a single language and in blends of structures in code-mixed productions.

scholarly journals Entity Realism About Mental Representations

Erkenntnis ◽  
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bence Nanay
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Mental Representation ◽  
Philosophy Of Mind ◽  
Mental Representations ◽  
Central Concept ◽  
The Real ◽  
Entity Realism ◽  
The One ◽  
The Mind

Abstract The concept of mental representation has long been considered to be central concept of philosophy of mind and cognitive science. But not everyone agrees. Neo-behaviorists aim to explain the mind (or some subset thereof) without positing any representations. My aim here is not to assess the merits and demerits of neo-behaviorism, but to take their challenge seriously and ask the question: What justifies the attribution of representations to an agent? Both representationalists and neo-behaviorists tend to take it for granted that the real question about representations is whether we should be realist about the theory of representationalism. This paper is an attempt to shift the emphasis from the debate concerning realism about theories to the one concerning realism about entities. My claim is that regardless of whether we are realist about representational theories of the mind, we have compelling reasons to endorse entity realism about mental representations.

Design of Activities on Numerical Representations Based on Cognitive Research

2008 ◽  
Vol 14 (6) ◽  
pp. 355-360
Author(s):  
Eleftheria R. Kalifatidou
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Mental Representations ◽  
The Real ◽  
Number Words ◽  
Cognitive Research ◽  
Proper Number ◽  
Numerical Representations

Unlike words that refer to concrete things in the real world, numbers refer to entities we must extract from our environment. First, we must be able to quantify sets of things and construct some mental representations of the determined quantities in order to relate them to the proper number words or Arabic numbers.

Categorical Reasoning from Multiple Diagrams

2005 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 333-376 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maxwell J. Roberts ◽  
Elizabeth D. A. Sykes
Keyword(s):  
Mental Models ◽  
Syllogistic Reasoning ◽  
Current Paper ◽  
Multistep Process ◽  
Categorical Reasoning ◽  
Two Stages ◽  
Mental Models Theory

Syllogistic reasoning from categorical premise pairs is generally taken to be a multistep process. Quantifiers ( all, no, some, some …not) must be interpreted, representations constructed, and conclusions identified from these. Explanations of performance have been proposed in which errors may occur at any of these stages. The current paper contrasts (a) representation explanations of performance, in which errors occur because not all possible representations are constructed, and/or mistakes are made when doing so (e.g., mental models theory), and (b) conclusion identification explanations, in which errors occur even when information has been correctly and exhaustively represented, due to systematic difficulties that people may have when identifying particular conclusions, or in identifying conclusions in particular circumstances. Three experiments are reported, in which people identified valid conclusions from diagrams analogous to Euler circles, so that the first two stages of reasoning from premise pairs were effectively removed. Despite this, several phenomena associated with reasoning from premise pairs persisted, and it is suggested that whereas representation explanations may account for some of these phenomena, conclusion identification explanations, which have never previously been considered, are required for others.

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