# Mental models #seed This note is still growing. At the most basic: humans create meaning and analogies about the world in their minds. A mental model is how a person creates a working model of the world around them in their mind based on personal perspective (schemata, paradigms, beliefs, viewpoints). This allows the individual to perceive and define their world.[^1] ```dataview list file.inlinks where file = this.file ``` ### Further reading Johnson-Laird, P. N. (1983). _Mental Models: Towards a Cognitive Science of Language, Inference, and Consciousness_. Harvard University Press. [^1]: [[nonaka1994DynamicTheoryOrganizational]]