People become more logical without feedback
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted June 19, 2018
Most theories of reasoning assume that human reasoning ability is stable over time, but few studies have investigated the matter. We analyzed a study in which 20 participants drew their own conclusions to the 64 sorts of...
Read MoreHuman reasoning violates all normal modal logics
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted June 13, 2018
Marco Ragni and Phil Johnson-Laird have a new paper in CogSci 2018 that shows how human reasoning violates all orthodox systems of modal logic. You can read the paper here.
Read MoreThe interpretation of disjunctions depends on the contents of its clauses
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted January 10, 2017
Christina Quelhas and Phil Johnson-Laird published a recent paper in QJEP on how disjunctive assertions are modulated by the contents of their clauses. You can read the paper here, and the abstract is below.
Read MoreObituary for Vittorio Girotto in T&R
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted August 21, 2016
Paulo Legrenzi and Phil Johnson-Laird wrote an obituary for their close friend and colleague, Vittorio Girotto. The obituary will be published in Thinking & Reasoning soon, but we have included a preprint here for those interested.
Read MoreCongrats to Professor Mascarenhas!
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted July 1, 2016
Congratulations to Salvador Mascarenhas, who will be joining the faculty of Ecole Normale Superieure as an Assistant Professor this fall!
Read MoreVittorio Girotto (1957-2016)
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted May 12, 2016
Vittorio Girotto passed away on Saturday, April 23rd, 2016. He was a close collaborator with many members of the lab, and he will be missed.
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Mental Models and Reasoning Symposium at ICT 2016
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in Events
- posted April 13, 2016
A symposium highlighting recent research on mental models and reasoning will be held at the International Conference on Thinking 2016, at Brown University. Speakers at the symposium include: Sangeet Khemlani and Phil Johnson-Laird Markus Knauff Ruth Byrne...
Read MoreNew 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.
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