OBJECTIVE To evaluate the relationship between assisted reproduction technology (ART) and parental mental representations during late pregnancy and early parenthood. STUDY DESIGN Women (n=25) following ART pregnancies were compared with their partners (n=23) and with women following spontaneous conceptions (n=39). Subjects were interviewed on mental representations at late gestation and three...

This paper presents an integrated view of learning from verbal and pictorial representations. Learning from these representations is considered as a task oriented process of constructing multiple mental representations. Construction of these representations includes information selection and information organisation, parsing of symbol structures, mapping of analog structures as well as model co...

Mental representations are of central importance in attachment theory. Most often conceptualized in terms of working models, ideas about mental representation have helped guide both attachment theory and research. At the same time, the working models concept has been criticized as overly extensible, explaining too much and therefore too little. Once unavoidable, such openness is increasingly un...

Sensorimotor processing specifically impacts mental body representations. In particular, deteriorated somatosensory input (as after complete spinal cord injury) increases the relative weight of visual aspects of body parts' representations, leading to aberrancies in how images of body parts are mentally manipulated (e.g. mental rotation). This suggests that a sensorimotor or visual reference fr...

The values of managers and employees in organizations are phenomena that have captured the interest of researchers at large. Despite this attention, there continues to be a lack of agreement on what values are and how they influence individuals, or how they are constituted in individuals’ mind. In this article content-based approach is presented as alternative reference frame for exploring valu...

Focusing in experimental study of human behavior, this article discusses the concepts of information and mental representation aiming the integration of their biological, computational, and semantic aspects. Assuming that the objective of any communication process is ultimately to modify the receiver's state, the term correlational information is proposed as a measure of how changes occurring i...

I am extremely humbled by the honor of introducing Roger Shepard, recipient of the 2006 David E. Rumelhart Prize for Contributions to the Theoretical Foundations of Human Cognition. Like so many of my generation of cognitive scientists, along with those of the generations that preceded and followed, I have been greatly inspired and profoundly moved by the power, depth, and sheer beauty of Profe...

In a recent article, Bowers (2009) argues that local representations are more consistent with neuro-biological data than distributed representations, as typically generated in Parallel Distributed Processing (PDP) models. We present three reasons why localised neural representations are good candidates for supporting mental representations, as they provide a solution to the trade-off between co...

evaluating the predictions they make concerning overshadowing, the role of similarity in discrimination learning, and the effectiveness of retroactive interference. Taken together, the results that will be described lend more support to configural than elemental theories of learning. Belgium In what sense can mental representations be implicit? Does it even makesense to ask the question? Today,...

Shephard groups are unitary reflection groups arising as the symmetries of regular complex polytopes. For a Shephard group, we identify the representation carried by the principal ideal in the coinvariant algebra generated by the image of the product of all linear forms defining reflecting hyperplanes. This representation turns out to have many equivalent guises making it analogous to the sign ...