in Shah & Miyake: "The Cambridge Handbook of Visuospatial Thinking". Excellent article. Emphasises the spatially cognitive aspect of language-comprehension, and the exploratory, fragmentary, active, goal-directed nature of imagining spatial situations from descriptions.
General remarks on cognitive psychology... Based on the various articles, the psychological level of explanation is directed at around the level of "behaviour attractors" in thinking. This is a useful level, even though I get the impression that these researchers find the phenomenology of thought as confusing as I do. Some researchers seem addicted to the "mental images as pictures" model, but not all, e.g. Tversky, and Rinck, who proposes associative mechanisms in spatial situation model construction.
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