A model of plausibility

Cognitive Science

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 95-120

  Connell, Louise ^a   Keane, Mark T ^b  

^a NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Cognition; Computer simulation; Plausibility; Psychology; Reasoning; Symbolic computational modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645464361     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15516709cog0000_53     Document Type: Article

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