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Showing 1 to 20 of 61 for “"Mental representation"”.
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The Metaphysics of Mental Representation
The representational theory of mind (RTM) explains the phenomenon of intentionality in terms of the existence and nature of mental representations. Despite the typical characterisation of mental representations in terms of their semantics, RTM is best understood as a metaphysical – more …
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Anxiety and the mental representation of events
… effects on the content and structure of the mental representations people form of their personal experiences (Fuhrman & Ahadi, 1989). The present study investigated whether subjects' experiences in a moderately stressful performance situation are encoded and stored in long-term memory …
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The Processing And Mental Representation Of Ing Variation
This dissertation examines the processing and mental representation of the sociolinguistic variable ING (thinking~thinkin'). Sociolinguists have asked questions about the locus of the ING variable using naturalistic speech data, which has resulted in a debate on whether the variable is phonological …
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Mental representation and processing of reduced words in casual speech
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Culture and Time Perception: Implications for Mental Representation and Decisions
… as well as the possible influences on mental representation and decisions. Building on prior research on cultural differences in time-related perceptions, two main time perceptions were identified and focused on, namely temporal orientation and the use of time metaphor. The temporal …
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Mental Representation and the Construction of Conceptual Understanding in Electronics Education
… to focus on learners’ misconceptions, experimental methods and interventions focusing on theoretical aspects of knowledge. Perspectives on learners’ actual constructions of knowledge in practice are not common. The aim of this research study, therefore, was to explore the use of external …
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Children's mental representation of referential relations : representational partitioning and "theory of mind"
… The results were described in terms of a developmental extension of Fauconnier’s mental spaces account of meaning representation. Implications for children’s mentalistic development were explored. In chapter 1 I considered the “referential opacity” raised by the representational nature of the …
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In Favor of Teleosemantics: A Millikanian Treatment of the Intentional Content of Mental Representation
<p>Theoretical attempts to naturalize mental contents, that is, to explain how wholly physical organisms manage to represent the external world to themselves, are mostly conducted in accordance with causal-informational and/or functionalist approaches based on nomic physical correlations. In 1984, …
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The Mind as a Predictive Modelling Engine: Generative Models, Structural Similarity, and Mental Representation
I outline and defend a theory of mental representation based on three ideas that I extract from the work of the mid-twentieth century philosopher, psychologist, and cybernetician Kenneth Craik: first, an account of mental representation in terms of idealised models that capitalize on structural …
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Experts and novices: Differences in their use of mental representation and metacognition in engineering design
Research shows that mental representation such as analogical reasoning is a fundamental cognitive tool for design problem solving (Daugherty & Mentzer, 2008; Hey, Lensey, Agogino, & Wood, 2008; Lewis, 2008). Not much is known, however, about the way students and professional engineers actively …
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Reference and Representation in Down's Syndrome
… must be integrated and maintained in a mental representation of current discourse. The ability of children with Down's syndrome to use such a mental representation has been assessed in this study. The ability of adults with Down's syndrome to comprehend and produce a range of grammatical …
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A novel training program for improving spatial orientation: A pilot study
The ability to form and use a mental representation of the surrounding is a critical skill for efficient spatial navigation and orientation in humans. Such a mental representation, more commonly known as a “cognitive map”, provides detailed information about landmarks and their relationships with …
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Investigations linking the philosophy and psychology of mathematics
… recent work in cognitive science on the topic of mental representation and show how we can shed light on a puzzle in the philosophy of mathematics by applying it to the issue of the mental representation of mathematics. In chapter three, I discuss a couple theories of the cognitive psychology of …
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Emotional Mental Imagery: Investigating Dysphoria-linked Bias
Mental representations can be consciously experienced in mental imagery format, and verbal-linguistic format. Mental imagery representations of emotional information can evoke more powerful emotional responses than verbal-linguistic representations of the same information. Biases in mental …
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Auditor Mental Representations and Hypothesis Testing of the Control Environment
… thesis, I examine how auditors construct their mental representations and test their hypotheses about the strength of a client’s control environment. With regard to the former, I hypothesize that management’s frame of the control system and auditor’s retrieval of control environment information …
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Theories of Perception and Recent Empirical Work
… realism and suggest that perception involves mental representation. I review this literature and the arguments therein, examine the relevant empirical work, and argue that recent empirical work on perception does give us reason to reject naive realism and to favour an indirect realist view …
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L2 acquisition of Spanish telic se constructions
… theories of second language acquisition and the mental representation of aspect in interlanguage.
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The Role of Reading Comprehension and Local Context Characteristics in Word Meaning Acquisition During Reading
… the sense that it does not take into account the mental representation that the reader is constructing on the basis of a variety of information contained in the text as well as prior knowledge.
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Re-examining the Cartesian mind: Dispelling a myth
… of mind regard the Cartesian theory of the mental as the major stumbling block to any viable theory of either mental representation or consciousness. Accordingly, they take part of their task to be the undoing of the Cartesianism that infects our thinking about the mental. In The Concept of …
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Reference frame definition, use, and interaction in spatial memory
… about spatial relationships in the world, a mental representation of spatial locations is needed. The exact nature of this representation has been debated among research groups with some concluding reference frames are self-based (egocentric), while others conclude spatial representations are …
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