Children with reading difficulties make systematic errors in transitive reasoning
- by Sergio Moreno-Ríos
- in News
- posted February 27, 2020
A new paper in Dyslexia by Elpida Panagiotidou, Francisca Serrano, and Sergio Moreno-Ríos shows that children with reading difficulties (RD), such as dyslexia, are subject to the visual impedence effect. Their abstract is available here: This study examined reasoning...
Read MoreBibliometric analysis of mental models research in Cognitive Processing
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted February 24, 2020
Chilean researchers Arturo Cárdenas-Figueroa (University of Chile) and Alexis Olmedo Navarro (Andrés Bello University) recently published a bibliometric meta-analysis of mental models research in the latest issue of Cognitive Processing. The abstract of their paper is available...
Read MoreWertheim and Ragni’s meta-analysis of neurocognitive mechanisms of reasoning
- by Sunny Khemlani
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- posted January 22, 2020
Julia Wertheim and Marco Ragni recently published a new meta-analysis of the neurocognitive correlates of syllogistic and conditional reasoning in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. Here’s their abstract: Inferring knowledge is a core aspect of human cognition. We can...
Read MoreBucciarelli and commenters discuss reasoning in the Italian Journal of Psychology
- by Sunny Khemlani
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- posted December 27, 2019
Monica Bucciarelli recently published a target article in the Giornale Italiano di Psicologia (the Italian Journal of Psychology) and many commenters were invited to respond. Her target article is titled “Imparare a ragionare… e continuare a farlo”...
Read MoreResearchers at Ecole Normale Supérieure investigate new fallacies with “might”
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted November 15, 2019
Salvador Mascarenhas and Léo Picat recently published a proceedings paper in Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT 29) in which they examined the functional properties of the word “might”, as in “It might be raining.” They present evidence...
Read More‘If’, ‘or’, and the possibilities they refer to: A new paper in JEP:LMC
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted November 15, 2019
Ruth Byrne and Phil Johnson-Laird published a new paper in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition that describes studies on the real and counterfactual possibilities that if and or refer to. The paper’s abstract is here: The theory of...
Read MoreNew chapter by García-Madruga et al. on deductive reasoning and executive function
- by Juan Antonio García-Madruga
- in News
- posted October 23, 2019
Juan García-Madruga and colleagues recently published a chapter in the compendium Inhibitory Control Training: A Multidisciplinary Approach. The chapter explores on attention, executive function, and their interplay in maintaining and accessing mental models. The abstract is available here:...
Read MoreWang and Thompson explore meta-cognitive judgments and models
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted October 12, 2019
Selina Wang and Valerie Thompson recently published a paper in Psychological Topics that explored how the number of models a particular syllogism yields can affect meta-cognitive judgments such as people’s answer fluency and their feelings-of-rightness (FOR). They conclude...
Read MoreHow knowledge makes disjunctions “analytically” true or false
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted October 2, 2019
Cristina Quelhas, Célia Rasga, and Phil Johnson-Laird published a paper in Cognitive Science on what makes disjunctions, such as A or B or both, analytically true or false. For instance, this disjunction is true: “Either the food...
Read MorePaper addresses the language acquisition process from the mental models theory
- by Miguel López Astorga
- in News
- posted September 2, 2019
The paper is written by Miguel López-Astorga and published in the journal Círculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación. This is its abstract: According to Hornstein, generative grammar needs to give an account of the fact that...
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