Up until now there has been no agreement on what a mental model of a physical system is and how to infer the mental model a person has. This paper describes research aimed at solving these problems by proposing that a Mental Model is a dynamic representation created in WM by combining information stored in LTM (the Conceptual Model of the system) and characteristics extracted from the environme...

We estimate the parameters of a dynamic multi-period model where parents with one child periodically decide whether their child uses mental health services. In this model, parents receive utility from household consumption and from their child’s mental health. Mental health services may improve the child’s mental health but may be costly in terms of reduced household consumption and direct disu...

We claim mental models are a framework that allows to shed light on the phenomenon of presuppositions. A plan-based lexical representation for verbs, together with the eeect of conversational implicatures that discharge possible mental models, are the key features of this proposal.