Mental Models: A Survey
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This paper reviews a class of cognitive representations collectively known as mental models. These representations purport to integrate certain aspects of propositional and imagistic theories of knowledge representation while enabling more detailed theories of human cognitive behavior. This paper explores the nature of mental models by considering basic philosophical issues including ontology and semantics. Psychological evidence supporting the existence and identifying characteristics of these models are reviewed in the areas of comprehension, problem solving, and learning. Where available, computational implementations of mental model theories are discussed. After a comparison of mental models with more conventional knowledge representations, a brief discussion and directions for future research are given.
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