Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

The paper folding task is commonly used for the evaluation ofnonverbal, spatial reasoning skills. In this paper, we presenta computational model that attempts to use visual-imagery-based representations and operations to solve this task. Themodel was tested against all problems from the standard pa-per folding task and achieved a perfect score, illustrating thatvisual-imagery-based representations and operations are suf-ficiently expressive to capture at least one successful solutionstrategy. Although the model does not closely resemble humancognitive processing, and thus should not be considered in itscurrent form to be a plausible psychological model of humantask performance, the assumptions made and their implicationsfor our understanding of human cognition on the paper foldingtask point to fruitful lines of future work towards this goal.