New paper on compound negation in Acta Psychologica
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted May 13, 2014
Isabel Orenes, Phil Johnson-Laird, and I recently published a paper in Acta Psychologica on how people negate compound assertions (e.g., conjunctions: A and B, disjunctions: A or B or both, and conditionals: if A then B).
Read MoreCongrats, Gorka!
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted May 12, 2014
Many congratulations to our friend and colleague, Gorka Navarrete, who recently became a Professor at the Universidad Diego Portales in Chile!
Read MoreNew article out in JML on eye-tracking and negation
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted May 12, 2014
Isabel Orenes, David Beltrán, and Carlos Santamaría have a new article out in the Journal of Memory and Language that reports eye-tracking data on the process by which people comprehend negated assertions.
Read MoreNew paper on consistency and quantifiers in M&C
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted May 12, 2014
Marco Ragni, Phil Johnson-Laird and I recently published a paper in Memory & Cognition on how people judge the consistency of a set of quantified assertions. One novel thing about the paper is that we made use...
Read MoreCongrats to…me!
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted April 12, 2014
In February I accepted a position as a full-time research scientist at the Naval Research Laboratory, where I’ll be continuing my postdoctoral research on computational models of reasoning and cognitive robotics. Many thanks to Greg Trafton and...
Read MoreLatest Discovery: Moreno-Ríos, Rojas-Barahona & García-Madruga
- by Ruth Byrne
- in News
- posted March 18, 2014
Sergio Moreno-Ríos, Cristian Rojas-Barahona and Juan A. García-Madruga have examined how children and adults reason about diagrams of simple shapes, such as a red triangle, a red circle and a blue circle, that contain indeterminate information. Their...
Read More2013 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...
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