Summary: The contribution examines - based on empirical results from the literature and the own research group - as to what extent approaches of the Action Regulation Theory are a more comprehensive foundation for the analyses of engineering design than ...

Summary: This article investigates the relation of language and thinking from a neuropsychological perspective. Are language disorders accompanied by deficits in problem solving and planning? For that aim we investigate the problem solving process of a ...

Summery: This article introduces a liberal alternative to the well-known decision models under risk in the form of a rule-based fuzzy decision model. The structure of the model corresponds to a simple, knowledge-based (expert-)system, which is capable to ...

Summary: The paper investigates the processing of grammatical gender in German. Finnish subjects regularly show problems in using pronominal gender in English or German second-language speech production. This may be due to the fact that there is no ...

Summary: With German and Chinese subjects, memory span for simple geometrical shapes and random shapes was established. Half of the subjects additionally learned verbal descriptions for the random shapes prior to the trials in which memory span was ...

Summary: The questions to be answered by three experiments were: Do children at the age of 6 construct spatial situation models of narrative texts and, if they do so, which elements of the underlying state of affairs are represented in the models. Before ...

Summary: A classification system tends to differentiate utterances of the test persons (healthy, neurotic and schizophrenic adolescents, n = 10) as well as of the experimenter in a standardized conversation situation as to whether they correspond to the ...