New 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...
Read MoreBucciarelli and commenters discuss reasoning in the Italian Journal of Psychology
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted December 27, 2019
Monica Bucciarelli recently published a target article in the Giornale Italiano di Psicologia (the Italian Journal of Psychology) and many commenters were invited to respond. Her target article is titled “Imparare a ragionare… e continuare a farlo”...
Read MoreResearchers at Ecole Normale Supérieure investigate new fallacies with “might”
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted November 15, 2019
Salvador Mascarenhas and Léo Picat recently published a proceedings paper in Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT 29) in which they examined the functional properties of the word “might”, as in “It might be raining.” They present evidence...
Read More‘If’, ‘or’, and the possibilities they refer to: A new paper in JEP:LMC
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted November 15, 2019
Ruth Byrne and Phil Johnson-Laird published a new paper in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition that describes studies on the real and counterfactual possibilities that if and or refer to. The paper’s abstract is here: The theory of...
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