Illusions in modal reasoning

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 282-294

  Goldvarg, Yevgeniya ^a   Johnson Laird, P N ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ILLUSION; LOGIC; MENTAL FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 0034048722     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03213806     Document Type: Article

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