1. Preface

   • Lorenzo Magnani
   • Nancy J. Nersessian

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 6

2. Perceiving the Infinite and the Infinitesimal World: Unveiling and Optical Diagrams in Mathematics

   • Lorenzo Magnani
   • Riccardo Dossena

   OriginalPaper Pages: 7 - 23

3. Taxonomy Based Models for Reasoning: Making Inferences from Electronic Road Sign Information

   • Brigitte Cambon de Lavalette
   • Charles Tijus
   • Olivier Bauer

   OriginalPaper Pages: 25 - 45

4. Remodeling the Past

   • Tim De Mey

   OriginalPaper Pages: 47 - 66

5. A Theory of Scientific Model Construction: The Conceptual Process of Abstraction and Concretisation

   • Demetris P. Portides

   OriginalPaper Pages: 67 - 88

6. Connecting Internal and External Representations: Spatial Transformations of Scientific Visualizations

   • J. Gregory Trafton
   • Susan B. Trickett
   • Farilee E. Mintz

   OriginalPaper Pages: 89 - 106

7. Morphodynamical Abduction. Causation by Attractors Dynamics of Explanatory Hypotheses in Science

   • Lorenzo Magnani
   • Matteo Piazza

   OriginalPaper Pages: 107 - 132

8. Visual Models in Analogical Problem Solving

   • Jim Davies
   • Nancy J. Nersessian
   • Ashok K. Goel

   OriginalPaper Pages: 133 - 152