ISSN 0931-0436Object Access in Mental Models under Different Perspectives Induced by Linguistic Expressions

A mental model of a text should allow for access to objects distributed spatially, according to the text. An experiment was conducted to test three hypotheses about the representation of spatial relations between a recipient of texts and the objects mentioned. Subjects read stories about a protagonist situated in a room, describing several objects in specified spatial relations to the protagonist. After each story the subjects decided on two objects whether these were mentioned in the text (target) or not (distractor). First hypothesis: The latency of target verification depends on the spatial relation between the protagonist and the object. Objects in front of the protagonist should be verified faster than those beside and behind him. If objects beside or behind the protagonist are verified faster in a recognition task, it should allow one to decide between one of two alternative models: the spatial framework model (objects beside are slowest) and the model of mental transformation (objects behind are slowest). The results corresponded to the latter. This seems to suggest that the access to mentioned objects depends on a mental model of the situation which is transformed analogous to a perceptual representation. Second hypothesis: If the protagonist changes his orientation, according to the text, th

Modellierung von Fluglotsenleistungen in der Streckenflugkontrolle

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Modellierung von Fluglotsenleistungen in der Streckenflugkontrolle

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Der Berliner Jugendlaengsschnitt Projekt: 'Jugendentwicklung und Drogen' ; vierter Forschungsantrag an die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

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Der Berliner Jugendlaengsschnitt Projekt: 'Jugendentwicklung und Drogen' ; dritter Fortsetzungsantrag an die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

UuStB Koeln(38)-880106107 / FIZ - Fachinformationszzentrum Karlsruhe / TIB - Technische InformationsbibliothekSIGLEDEGerman