New Cognition paper on how children understand probabilities
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted March 30, 2016
Vittorio Girotto, along with his colleagues Laura Fontanari, Michel Gonzalez, Giorgio Vallortigara, and Agnès Blaye, have a new paper in Cognition that shows that children below the age of 5 have difficulty forming probabilistic expectations. You can download the paper...
Read MorePostdoc and RA positions available at Freiburg
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted February 20, 2016
The Cognitive Reasoning Group (PD Dr. Marco Ragni) at the Institute of Computer Science, Research Group on Artificial Intelligence, Albert- Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg invites applications for 1 Post-Doc Position (Salary level E 13 TV-L, 100%) and 1 Research Assistant (Salary...
Read MoreNew papers in JCP
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted February 9, 2016
Two new papers, one on how children construct algorithms and another on spatial conditionals and illusory inferences, are now out in the Journal of Cognitive Psychology.
Read MorePostdoc positions in reasoning at NRL
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted January 20, 2016
The Naval Research Lab is currently seeking applicants for multiple postdoctoral positions to collaborate on various projects in reasoning, including (but not limited to) building a unified computational framework of reasoning; investigating how people engage in explanatory reasoning; and testing a...
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The 2016 Meeting in Memory of Vittorio Girotto
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in Events
- posted October 28, 2015
A meeting in memory of Vittorio Girotto will be held at University College London from July 28th-29th, 2016. This meeting was formerly for Phil Johnson-Laird, but the committee and he have decided that instead it should memorialize...
Read MoreSpatial reasoning: there’s an app for that!
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted March 24, 2015
Marco Ragni, Markus Knauff, and Franz Dietrich have designed an online interface to their recently published theory on spatial reasoning (Ragni & Knauff, 2013). You can click below to use it: Launch PRISM
Read MoreThree new papers in press
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted March 16, 2015
We recently published three complementary papers on: the role of logic and probability in human reasoning; how people estimate unique event probabilities; and how they make immediate inferences from quantifiers.
Read MoreCongratulations to Prof. Goodwin on getting tenure!
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted March 11, 2015
Prof. Geoff Goodwin recently received a tenure position in the Department of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. Many congratulations, Geoff!
Read MoreByrne and Khemlani to talk at the 2016 Summer School in Cognitive Science
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted March 9, 2015
Ruth Byrne and Sunny Khemlani will give talks on mental models at the 2016 Summer School in Cognitive Science at the Université du Québec à Montréal. The focus area of the summer school will be on reasoning.
Read MoreNew paper on moral conflicts in Thinking and Reasoning
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted November 5, 2014
Monica Bucciarelli and Margherita Daniele have a new paper in Thinking & Reasoning on conflicts in moral reasoning.
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