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Published in: KI - Künstliche Intelligenz 3/2015

01-08-2015 | Review

Markus Knauff: Space to Reason—A Spatial Theory of Human Thought

The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2013, xvii+312 pp., ISBN: 9780262018654 (Hardcover), ISBN: 9780262313636 (Ebook), $40 (Hardcover), $28 (Ebook)

Author: Yacin Hamami

Published in: KI - Künstliche Intelligenz | Issue 3/2015

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Markus Knauff’s book entitled Space to Reason: A Spatial Theory of Human Thought reports the results of a 15-year research program dedicated to the psychological investigation of what is known in the literature as relational reasoning. The book, however, does more than reporting previous research, for it develops a new psychological theory—called the Space to Reason Theory—which provides theoretical foundations and puts in perspective a substantial body of results obtained from behavioral experiments, brain-imaging studies, and computational modelling. Space to Reason is the first book to appear which offers an exhaustive treatment of the psychology of relational reasoning. …
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Footnotes
1
See Kosslyn’s Image and Brain (MIT Press, 1994).
 
2
See Rips’ The Psychology of Proof (MIT Press, 1994).
 
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Markus Knauff: Space to Reason—A Spatial Theory of Human Thought
The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2013, xvii+312 pp., ISBN: 9780262018654 (Hardcover), ISBN: 9780262313636 (Ebook), $40 (Hardcover), $28 (Ebook)
Author
Yacin Hamami
Publication date
01-08-2015
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
KI - Künstliche Intelligenz / Issue 3/2015
Print ISSN: 0933-1875
Electronic ISSN: 1610-1987
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s13218-015-0374-z

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