Truth table tasks: Irrelevance and cognitive ability

Thinking and Reasoning

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 213-246

  Sevenants, Aline ^a   Dieussaert, Kristien ^a   Schaeken, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cognitive ability; Conditionals; Mental model accounts; Suppositional theory; Truth table task

Indexed keywords

EID: 79961227903     PISSN: 13546783     EISSN: 14640708     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13546783.2011.569153     Document Type: Article

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