Towards Computational Cognitive Modeling of Mental Imagery: The Attention-Based Quantification Theory

KI - Kunstliche Intelligenz

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 261-267

  Sima, Jan Frederik ^a   Freksa, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cognitive modeling; Imagery debate; Mental imagery; Visuo spatial representations

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE MODEL; COMPUTATIONAL COGNITIVE MODELING; EMPIRICAL DATA; HUMAN ABILITIES; IMAGERY DEBATE; MENTAL IMAGERY; NEW THEORY; SPATIAL INFORMATIONS; SPATIAL REPRESENTATIONS; VISUO-SPATIAL REPRESENTATION;

COMPUTATION THEORY;

EID: 84901419703     PISSN: 09331875     EISSN: 16101987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13218-012-0186-3     Document Type: Article

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