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  title info:
    title: Space to reason
    sub title: a spatial theory of human thought
  name:
    name part: Knauff, Markus.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    place:
      place term: Cambridge, Mass
    publisher: The MIT Press
    date issued: ©2013
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (290 pages)
  abstract: "Many scholars believe that visual mental imagery plays a key role in reasoning. In Space to Reason, Markus Knauff argues against this view, proposing that visual images are not relevant for reasoning and can even impede the process. He also argues against the claim that human thinking is solely based on abstract symbols and is completely embedded in language. Knauff proposes a third way to think about human reasoning that relies on supramodal spatial layout models, which are more abstract than pictorial images and more concrete than linguistic representations. He argues that these spatial layout models are at the heart of human thought, even thought about nonspatial relations in the world. For Knauff the visual images that we so often associate with reasoning are only in the foreground of conscious experience. Behind the images, the actual logical work is carried out by reasoning-specific operations on these spatial layout models. Knauff also offers a solution to the problem of indeterminacy in human reasoning, introducing the notion of a preferred layout model, which is one layout model among others that has the best chance of being mentally constructed and thus guides the further process of thought. Knauff's "space to reason" theory covers the functional, the algorithmic, and the implementational level of analysis and is corroborated by psychological experiments, functional brain imaging, and computational modeling."--Publisher's description.
  note: Markus Knauff.
  subject:
    topic: Thought and thinking
  subject:
    topic: Reasoning
  subject:
    topic: Space
  subject:
    topic: COGNITIVE SCIENCES/General
  subject:
    topic: COGNITIVE SCIENCES/Psychology/Cognitive Psychology
  classification: BF441 .K535 2013eb
  classification: 153.4/3
  identifier: 9780262313643
  identifier: 0262313642
  identifier: 9781299265547
  identifier: 1299265545
  identifier: 9780262018654
  identifier: 0262018659
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: OCoLC-P
    record creation date: 130304
    record change date: 20221121162639.9
    record identifier: in00004602434
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng