{"pk":27819,"title":"A Neural Dynamic Architecture That Autonomously Builds Mental Models","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Reasoning and other mental operations are believed to rely onmental models. Arguments have been made that mental mod-els share representational substrate with perception. Here, wedemonstrate that a neural dynamic architecture that perceptu-ally grounds language may also support the building of men-tal models. Supplied with a sequence of simple premises thatspecify the colors of object pairs as well as their spatial rela-tion, the architecture builds a mental model of the describedscene. We show how the neural processes of the architec-ture evolve in response to both determinate and indeterminatepremises. For indeterminate premises, we demonstrate thatthe preferred mental models observed in human participantsemerge from the underlying neural dynamics.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"mental models"},{"word":"Neural dynamics"},{"word":"dynamic field theory"},{"word":"Grounded cognition"},{"word":"Visual imagery"}],"section":"Publication-based-Talks","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1ft4x43d","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Parthena","middle_name":"","last_name":"Kounatidou","name_suffix":"","institution":"Ruhr-Universitat Bochum","department":""},{"first_name":"Mathis","middle_name":"","last_name":"Richter","name_suffix":"","institution":"Ruhr-Universitat Bochum","department":""},{"first_name":"Gregor","middle_name":"","last_name":"Schoner","name_suffix":"","institution":"Ruhr-Universitat Bochum","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2018-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/27819/galley/17458/download/"}]}