Reasoning from connectives and relations between entities.
This article reports investigations of inferences that depend both on connectives between clauses, such as or else, and on relations between entities, such as in the same place as. Participants made more valid inferences from biconditionals-for instance, Ann is taller than Beth if and only if Beth i...
| Publicado en: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 40; no. 2; pp. 266 - 280 |
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Springer Nature
Feb2012
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