The difference between generating counterexamples and using them during reasoning

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A: Human Experimental Psychology

Volumn 57, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1285-1308

  Verschueren, Niki ^a   Schaeken, Walter ^a   De Neys, Wim ^a   D'Ydewalle, Géry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; LOGIC; PROBLEM SOLVING; READING; SEMANTICS;

CLASSIFICATION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CULTURE; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; LOGIC; PROBABILITY LEARNING; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; READING; SEMANTICS;

EID: 7444239655     PISSN: 02724987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02724980343000774     Document Type: Article

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