2013 in review
- by Ruth Byrne
- in News
- posted January 6, 2014
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 12,000 times in 2013. If...
Read MoreLatest Discovery: Espino & Byrne 2013
- by Ruth Byrne
- in News
- posted September 26, 2013
Orlando Espino and Ruth Byrne have discovered that people make inferences between conditionals and disjunctions by relying on a heuristic that identifies compatible possibilities. Their paper ‘The compatibility heuristic in non-categorical hypothetical reasoning: Inferences between conditionals and...
Read MoreLatest news: Knauff 2013
- by Ruth Byrne
- in News
- posted September 16, 2013
Markus Knauff has published a book ‘Space to Reason: A Spatial Theory of Human Thought’ with MIT press. It is described as follows: “Many scholars believe that visual mental imagery plays a key role in reasoning. In...
Read MoreLatest news: Ragni & Knauff 2013
- by Ruth Byrne
- in News
- posted September 5, 2013
Marco Ragni and Markus Knauff have developed a new computational model of reasoning about spatial relations based on the construction of ‘preferred’ mental models. Their paper ‘A theory and a computational model of spatial reasoning with preferred...
Read MoreLatest news: The Development of Thinking
- by Ruth Byrne
- in News
- posted June 13, 2013
Pierre Barrouillet and Caroline Gauffroy have edited a book ‘The Development of Thinking and Reasoning’ (2013, Routledge) which is described as follows: “The first part of the book illustrates how modern approaches to the study of thinking...
Read MoreLatest discovery: Vergauwe, E., Gauffroy, C., Morsanyi, K., Dagry I., & Barrouillet, P. (2013).
- by Ruth Byrne
- in News
- posted April 29, 2013
Evie Vergauwe, Caroline Gauffroy, Kinga Morsanyi, Isabelle Dagry and Pierre Barrouillet have discovered that when people think about a conditional such as, ‘if the circle is red then the star is yellow’, they take a long time...
Read MoreCongratulations to Professor Koralus!
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted April 18, 2013
Philipp Koralus has accepted the position on the faculty at Oxford University. He will be the Fulford Clarendon University Lecturer and Fulford Tutorial Fellow at St. Catherine’s College. We wish him many congratulations and best of luck on...
Read MoreTheory of reverse engineering now out in JCP
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted April 9, 2013
Louis Lee and Phil’s paper on a new theory of reverse engineering is now published in the latest issue of the Journal of Cognitive Psychology.
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- by Ruth Byrne
- in News
- posted April 4, 2013
Monica Bucciarelli, Amelia Gangemi and Walter Schaeken are the guest editors of a special issue of the Journal of Cognitive Psychology (2013, volume 25, issue 2) on ‘Mental models in cognitive change’. In the introductory article to...
Read MoreSpecial issue of JCP on mental models in cognitive change now out
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted March 26, 2013
The latest issue of the Journal of Cognitive Psychology is out, and it is a special issue on “Mental Models in Cognitive Change”. Abstracts from three contributions of the lab are available below.
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