Mental spatial knowledge processing often uses spatio-analogical or quasipictorial representation structures such as spatial mental models or mental images. The cognitive architecture Casimir is designed to provide a framework for computationally modeling human spatial knowledge processing relying on these kinds of representation formats. In this article, we present an overview of Casimir and i...

Mental models are representations that describe the understanding of three levels representation in chemistry, is macroscopic, sub-microscopic, and symbolic. This study aims to obtain a general description mental model pre-service chemistry teachers colligative properties non-electrolyte solutions. The was descriptive research with 22 second-year FIP Chemistry Education students from Pelita Har...

We report on a study conducted to extend our knowledge about the process of gaining a mental representation of music. Several studies, inspired by research on the statistical learning of language, have investigated statistical learning of sequential rules underlying tone sequences. Given that the mental representation of music correlates with distributional properties of music, we tested whethe...

Constructing mental representations in the absence of sensory stimulation is a fundamental ability of the human mind and has been investigated in numerous brain imaging studies. However, it is still unclear how brain areas facilitating mental construction processes interact with brain regions related to specific sensory representations. In this fMRI study subjects formed mental representations ...

This paper explores the possibility of organizing map design around conceptual spatial representations (CSRs). CSR refers to a mental representation that is instantiated in interaction with a spatial environment, a spatial representational medium, and/or while solving spatial problems. For this approach we coin the term cognitive conceptual. We detail the basic assumptions in a contrastive mann...

The Fueter theorem states that regular (resp. monogenic) functions in quaternionic (resp. Clifford) analysis can be constructed from holomorphic functions f(z) in the complex plane, hereby using a combination of a formal substitution and the action of an appropriate power of the Laplace operator. In this paper we interpret this theorem on the level of representation theory, as an intertwining m...

This priming study investigates the role of conceptual structure during language production, probing how English speakers encode information about motion events. Participants read prime sentences aloud before describing dynamic motion events. Primes differed in 1) syntactic frame, 2) distribution of manner and path elements within frames, and 3) degree of conceptual overlap with target events. ...

Mental representation and transformation of spatial information is often examined with mental rotation tasks, which require deciding whether a rotated image is the same or the mirror version of an upright image. Recent research with infants shows early discrimination of objects from mirror image versions. However, even at age 4, many children perform near chance level on more standard measures....

To study the elementary expectations that arise in the perception of tonal music, an exploratory study was performed in which subjects heard a sequence of four chords (to induce a key or tonality) followed by one tone (1 of the 12 tones within an octave), and indicated which tone they expected to be the next tone. Responses were divided into three groups: a random, afifth, and a tonal group. Th...

Recent research has suggested a division between lexical representations and phonological patterns; lexical items are stored with talker-specific information, while phonological patterns are represented at a separate, abstract level of representation (Finley, 2013; Smolensky & Legendre, 2006). The present paper provides further evidence for this proposal, demonstrating that learners will extend...