Monthly Archives: September 2013

Latest Discovery: Espino & Byrne 2013

Posted on September 26, 2013 by Ruth Byrne

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 disjunctions’ is published … Continue reading →

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Latest news: Knauff 2013

Posted on September 16, 2013 by Ruth Byrne

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 Space to Reason, … Continue reading →

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Latest news: Ragni & Knauff 2013

Posted on September 5, 2013 by Ruth Byrne

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 mental models’ is … Continue reading →

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