Dynamic mental representations

Mental Representations of Lyrical Prose

The article analyzes mental representations of Russian lyrical prose texts. The texts demonstrate collective memory engrams that are defined by cultural and historical legacy of the nation and authors’ creative world perception. In architectonics of a lyrical prose text, sense perception reveals itself in accumulated underlying meanings and wisdom conveyed by expressive means. The author’s inte...

The effect of social cognitive representation on the mental property of the body: Evidence based on rubber hand illusion

Mental representations are to be considered as the most advanced aspects of human cognition and in addition to their own physical representations, representations of social cognition of others can also affect the mental experience of each person's ownership of their body. Accordingly, the present research as a quasi-experimental study based on repeated measures, was conducted in order to invest...

Saliency Cognition of Urban Monuments Based on Verbal Descriptions of Mental-Spatial Representations (Case Study: Urban Monuments in Qazvin)

Urban monuments encompass a wide range of architectural works either intentionally or unintentionally. These works are often salient due to their inherently explicit or hidden components and qualities in the urban context. Therefore, they affect the mental-spatial representations of the environment and make the city legible. However, the ambiguity of effective components often complicates their...

Externalising The Internal: Collaborative Design Through Dynamic Problem Visualisation

In collaborative system design, problems can arise through the differing aims, plans and goals that participants hold. Simulation models can be used as visual representations acting as dynamic ‘blackboard’ models of design problems. These representations permit problem understanding through the externalisation of individual stakeholder mental models, making them available to all involved. Infor...

Dynamic mental representations