Mental models and human reasoning

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 43, 2010, Pages 18243-18250

  Johnson Laird, Philip N ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Abduction; Deduction; Induction; Logic; Rationality

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HUMAN REASONING; IMAGERY; LOGIC; MENTAL FUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; THEORETICAL MODEL; THINKING; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX;

BRAIN; COGNITION; HUMANS; LOGIC; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEMORY; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 78649867981     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1012933107     Document Type: Article

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