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TY - GEN ID - cogprints1517 UR - http://cogprints.org/1517/ A1 - Schirra, J�rg R.J. Y1 - 1995/// N2 - Most cognitive theories agree that a listener of a sports broadcast on radio usually imagines the scene described; the concept `mental image' appears in a specific sort of explanations. In contrast to this conception, it is argued that this concept should rather be understood as part of a certain kind of grounding explanations of the radio listener's understanding. This particular conception is based on the distinction between `specification' and `implementation' as found in the theory of abstract data types. Its application to the field of spatial concepts leads to a computational system (ANTLIMA) which exemplifies how the expression `mental image' could be used while explaining a speaker's ability to control the resolvability of ambiguities in an objective report of what the speaker sees. PB - Rodopi, Amsterdam KW - spatial reasoning KW - mental images KW - semantics of locative expressions TI - Understanding Radio Broadcasts On Soccer: The Concept `Mental Image' and Its Use in Spatial Reasoning SP - 107 AV - public EP - 136 ER -