‘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
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- 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
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- 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...
Read MoreByrne gave keynote on counterfactuals at IJCAI-19’s Workshop on Explainable AI
- by Sunny Khemlani
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- posted August 23, 2019
Ruth Byrne gave a keynote talk, titled “Constraints on Counterfactuals”, at the Workshop on Explainable AI at this year’s International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2019) in Macao.
Read MoreRagni’s course at the South-East Asian Summer School on Computational Logic in Ulaanbaatar
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted August 22, 2019
Marco Ragni gave a series of lectures at the 9th South-East Asian Summer School on Computational Logic in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, on the topic of “Cognitive Computational Models of Human Thinking and Reasoning.” The abstract for his course...
Read MoreEyetracking results show how people comprehend counterfactual conditionals
- by Sunny Khemlani
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- posted August 20, 2019
Isabel Orenes and colleagues showed how people comprehend the dual nature of counterfactual conditionals, i.e., how process separate a fact from a counterfactual possibility. Their results were recently published in Frontiers of Psychology, and the abstract is here:...
Read MorePeople make systematic errors when reasoning about durations
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted August 1, 2019
Laura Kelly presented new research on reasoning about durations at the 2019 London Reasoning Workshop. The abstract of her talk is here: Few experiments have examined how people reason about durative relations, e.g., “during”. Such relations pose...
Read MoreA stochastic algorithm for causal reasoning
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted July 22, 2019
Gordon Briggs and Sunny Khemlani published a new computational model of causal reasoning in the International Conference of Cognitive Modeling, which they used to model data from a replication and extension of Wolff and Barbey (2015). Here’s...
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