%A J?rg R.J. Schirra
%J Bilder im Geiste: Zur kognitiven und erkenntnistheoretischen Funktion piktorialer Repr?sentationen
%T Understanding Radio Broadcasts On Soccer: The Concept `Mental Image' and Its Use in Spatial Reasoning
%X 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. 
%K spatial reasoning, mental images, semantics of locative expressions
%P 107-136
%E Klaus Sachs-Hombach
%D 1995
%I Rodopi, Amsterdam
%L cogprints1517

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