Ragni joins the Danish Institute of Advanced Study
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted July 21, 2020
Congratulations to Marco Ragni, who will start at the Danish Institute of Advanced Study in August with a joint appointment at the University of Southern Denmark! He will continue to lead the Cognitive Computation Lab at the...
Read MoreMental models use common neural spatial structure for spatial and abstract content
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted June 8, 2020
Kay Alfred and colleagues (Dartmouth U.) present a new paper in Communications Biology on how spatial and abstract content implicates common neural structures traceable to model-based thinking. The abstract is here: Mental models provide a cognitive framework...
Read MoreMunroe on reasoning, rationality, and representation
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted May 1, 2020
In a new paper out in Synthese, Wade Munroe of the University of Michigan argues that mental models best characterize the mental operations that underlie reasoning and also help explain how to rationally update attitudes and beliefs....
Read MoreNew research on factual and counterfactual conditionals
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted April 30, 2020
Orlando Espino and Ruth Byrne report two new papers on factual and counterfactual conditionals. In a paper now out in Cognitive Science, they show how counterfactual conditionals systematically suppress inferences. Here’s the abstract of their paper: We...
Read MoreProving the consistency of the model theory
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted April 30, 2020
Phil Johnson-Laird developed a new informal proof of the consistency of the model theory of sentential reasoning (Khemlani, Byrne, & Johnson-Laird, 2018). Here’s a relevant introductory excerpt: is the model theory of sentential reasoning consistent in the...
Read MoreRagni and Johnson-Laird ask: “Explanation or modeling?”
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted April 15, 2020
In the latest issue of Computational Brain & Behavior, Marco Ragni and Phil Johnson-Laird respond to recent criticism by Kellen and Klauer (same issue) about a meta-analysis of studies on the Wason selection task. Kellen and Klauer’s central points...
Read MoreNew paper about some possible relations between Cognitive Linguistics and the theory of mental models
- by Miguel López Astorga
- in News
- posted March 18, 2020
The paper is written by Miguel López-Astorga in the Journal Studii de lingvistică. This is the abstract: Cognitive Linguistics is an important approach to language and cognition that gives relevant arguments and theses on topics related to...
Read MoreChildren 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
- in News
- 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...
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