?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=The+Representation+of+Space+in+Mental+Models+derived+from+Text&rft.creator=Langston%2C+William&rft.creator=Kramer%2C+Douglas+C&rft.creator=Glenberg%2C+Arthur+M&rft.subject=Cognitive+Psychology&rft.subject=Language&rft.subject=Semantics&rft.subject=Epistemology&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Language&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Mind&rft.description=Mental+models+of+text+are+representations+of+what+the+text+is+about+(i.e.%2C+situations)%2C+rather+than+representations+of+the+text+itself.+Many+mental+model+theories+propose+that+mental+models%2C+like+real+situations%2C+are+played+out+in+a+medium+analogous+to+a+Euclidean+space+so+that+distance+has+functional+consequences.++For+example%2C+when+mentally+manipulating+one+element+of+the+representation%2C+other+elements+that+are+spatially+close+will+be+noticed+and+their+short-term+accessibility+enhanced.++To+test+this+noticing+hypothesis%2C+participants+read+texts+that+described+the+object+by+object+construction+of+a+spatial+layout.++According+to+the+text%2C+a+critical+object+ended+up+close+to+a+target+object+(in+the+spatial+layout)+or+far+from+the+target+object.++In+neither+case%2C+however%2C+was+the+relation+between+the+critical+object+and+the+target+object+explicitly+described+in+the+text.++The+noticing+hypothesis+predicts+that+the+accessibility+of+the+target+object+will+be+enhanced+when+the+critical+object+is+close+to+it.+We+tested+this+prediction+in+seven+experiments+in+which+we+also+manipulated+the+number+of+objects+described%2C+whether+the+description+was+accompanied+by+a+diagram%2C+the+presentation+modality+of+the+description%2C+the+number+of+dimensions+in+the+spatial+layout%2C+and+the+measurement+of+accessibility.++We+failed+to+find+consistent+support+for+the+noticing+hypothesis.++The+data+compel+the+conclusions+that+a)+spatial+representations+can+be+formed+when+reading%2C+b)+these+representations+do+not+support+automatic+noticing+of+implicit+spatial+relations%2C+c)+it+is+likely+that+the+spatial+representation+is+more+topological+or+functional+than+Euclidean.&rft.date=1998&rft.type=Preprint&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F626%2F1%2Fmental_models.html&rft.identifier=++Langston%2C+William+and+Kramer%2C+Douglas+C+and+Glenberg%2C+Arthur+M++(1998)+The+Representation+of+Space+in+Mental+Models+derived+from+Text.++%5BPreprint%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F626%2F