Mental Models
Timing
Beliefs
The Problem of Coordination
Dynamics and Kinematics
Learning
Embodied Cognition
Text Understanding


David Sears
Jay Pfaffman
Kristen Pilner
Teenie Matlock
Daniel Schwartz
Julie Heiser
Jammie Chang
Kevin Hartman

Reasoning about the referent of a picture versus reasoning about the picture as the referent: An effect of visual realism. Memory & Cognition

Analog imagery in mental model reasoning: Depictive models. Cognitive Psychology

Shuttling between depictive models and abstract rules: Induction and fallback. Cognitive Science

Physical imagery: Kinematic versus dynamic models. Cognitive Psychology

Inferences through imagined actions: Knowing by simulated doing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition

Tool use and the effect of action on the imagination. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Cognition, and Memory

Embodied imagery and the urge to rules. Journal of Mental Imagery

Coordinating multiple representations for reasoning about mechanical devices. Symposium on Cognitive and Computational Models of Spatial Representations

Coordinating models and actions. AAAI Qualitative Reasoning Workshop


The effects of action and knowledge on spatial inference
NSF - BCS Program 2002 - 2005