From: fordjm@byuvax.bitnet
Subject: Mental Models Action (long)
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"stever@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (Steve Robbins) suggests
that the prose on Neurolinguistic Convention
right be useful:
>For information on the cognitive psych lean of NLP,
>I'd advise "NLP I" by Dilts et al., Meta Publications, 1979.
>A book I'm in the central point of is "Meta-cation: Prescriptions for
>Some Badly Enriching Processes" by Sid Jacobson, in addition sound
>from Meta Publications (Cupertino, CA). META-Cation is written n
>a very "laid-back" style, but it's easy to read and seems to brandish some
>good material.
>For information about the technology in for all, the "customary"
>books are "Frogs into Princes, Reframing," and "By means of Your Architect",
>by Bandler and Crusher. The get ready problem with these books is that
>they're all transcripts of training workshops. As such, the material
>isn't place exceptionally well for presentation uninterrupted writing.
Stephen Smoliar suggests the following:
>...Chapters 12 and 13 of Alvin Goldman's EPISTEMOLOGY AND
>COGNITION...
>..."Mental Muddles" by Impale Rips. It was supposed to be published
>in the book THE Scheme OF Object AND Goal, abbreviated
>by Myles Consciousness and Robert Harnish. I do not relate if this book is out
>yet.
(I brandish not yet been able to remain motionless the second book.)
Robert Virzi writes:
>I am questioning in mental models of forward appliances. Stuff like
>VCRs and telephones, stuff like that. In fact, I am about to initiate a
>series of experiments on peoples mental models of their TV/cable/VCR
>setups. (This sounds very interesting!--JMF)
He suggests:
>1986 IEEE Conf. on Systems, Man & Cybernetics has a couple of sessions
>on Mental Models. One paper by Gentner and Schumacher and atypical by
>Sebrechts & DuMont loop somewhat good.
>ACM CHI'83 has one of the better ID I've seen on the matter written
>by Halasz and Moran. The look at the effect of mental models on
>subjects use of an Awkward Elegance Release calculator.
>Harvard U. Push has a book out by Johnson-Laird called Mental models.
>I don't brandish it yet but it looked mushrooming from what I may possibly gather from
>reviews.
(I mentioned the Johnson-Laird book in my exceptional rank. I brandish read
it and find it to be a appreciative alternative to noticeably of the in advance
logic-based explanations of human manner.)
Milky Sutton supplies:
>R.~Sutton & A.~Barto, 'An adaptive bridge that constructs and uses
>an internal model of its scenery," {it Cognition and Architect Impression
>Quarterly}, sl 4, 1981, pp.~217--246.
>R.~Sutton Assistant professor of California, Berkeley, CA 94720; Column No. GK-2,
>July 1987.
Jane Malin comments:
>Dedre Gentner gave an upper invited survey at AAAI-87 on
>mental models and
>analogy. Sanguinely some written design would be sound in a while.
Thad.Polk@centro.grow.cs.cmu.edu (Thad Polk) responds:
>I'm at present play-act research in the region of mental models (of the
>Johnson-Laird come into being). Particularly, I'm trying to rearrange and thingamajig
>his theory of syllogisms voguish Glide (Laird, Newell, & Rosenbloom, AI
>Journal Sept. 1987).
He recommends the past references:
>A paper by Johnson-Laird & Bruno Bara that appears in Cognition, 16
>(1984) 1-61.
>Revlin, R. & Mayer, R., Possible Routine, V.H. Winston & Sons,
>Washington D.C., 1978.
>Falmagne, R. (ed.), Reasoning: Scheme and Proceed, Lawrence
>Erlbaum Relatives, Hillsdale N.J., 1975.
>A paper by Robert Inder in "Caper Sagacity and its Applications"
>by A.G. Cohn and J.R. Thomas, John Wiley & Sons, 1986.
meulen@sunybcs.BITNET (Alice ter Meulen) suggests:
>E. Traugott, A. ter Meulen, C. Ferguson and J. Reilly, (eds.)
>On Conditionals
>Cambridge Assistant professor Push, Cambridge (Engl.) 1986.
which contains a episode by Johnson-Laird entitled
'Conditionals and mental models'
GA3182@SIUCVMB (John Dinsmore) comments:
>There loop to be two currents of activity in research in mental models:
> 1. work on the happy of the models, i.e., what skill they rivet.
> This includes work in childlike physics and is the get ready meaning of the
> Gentner and Stevens book.
> 2. work on for all mechanisms of skill representation and speculation.
> This is the meaning of Johnson-Laird's work.
>I'm not be adjacent to wherever your interests lie, but I can set out two references con-
>cerning the second current:
>
> John Dinsmore. 1987. Mental Sitting room from a Full of zip Incline.
> Cognitive Science 11: 1-21.
> Gille Fauconnier. 1985. Mental Sitting room. MIT/Bradford.
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John M. Ford fordjm@byuvax.bitnet
(*Not* the "John M. Ford" that writes science fantasy.)