An investigation into the online processing of counterfactual and indicative conditionals.

A study was conducted to investigate how readers process counterfactual conditionals and indicative conditionals. Data were obtained using two experiments involving 72 university students. Findings revealed that a reading-time penalty arises during the processing of counterfactual conditionals whe...

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Published in:	Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Vol. 62; no. 11; pp. 2113 - 2126
Main Authors:	Stewart, Andrew J., Haigh, Matthew, Kidd, Evan
Format:	Article
Published:	Taylor & Francis Ltd November 2009
Subjects:	Counterfactuals (Logic) Reasoning Text processing (Computer science)
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