How is a Mental Model formed?

Computers should never be compared to a human brain. Computer just don’t measure up. What we know about the brain is amazing, what we don’t is unknown (I can just hear Rumsfeld now… [sorry down that path leads to insanity] ).

One of the funny things about what we know about brains - most of it, the predominate research is upon American graduate students, so this may give a unique bias to much of what we think we know about the brain, how it is structured and how it learns.

Rules of memory 'beautifully' rewritten
By James Gallagher, April 2017 - BBC News

"The US and Japanese team found that the brain "doubles up" by simultaneously making two memories of events. One is for the here-and-now and the other for a lifetime, they found.
It had been thought that all memories start as a short-term memory and are then slowly converted into a long-term one."

http://www.ted.com/talks/tom_wujec_on_3_ways_the_brain_creates_meaning.html


In this video you can watch Autodesk creating a mental model of their future, using old school pen & paper and see some cool technology. If you have created an Agile Road Map you will recognize the process, but this will explain why it can be so powerful to put all the stickies up on a wall and just look at them.

See Also:

How language shapes the way we think - TED Women 2017 Lera Boroditsky

"Human minds have invented not one cognitive universe, but 7,000."

... a tribe that orients in cardinal directions - not left or right. How do we organize time ...
they organize time from East to West (e.g. the landscape and sun's progression).

This is your brain on communication - TED Neuroscientist Uri Hasson


A metaphorical model of the mind - Dave Gray

Information Processing theory of Mind - Simply Psychology org
The Empty Brain - Your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories. In short: your brain is not a computer  - by Robert Epstein