Reasoning from connectives and relations between entities

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 266-279

  Mackiewicz, Robert ^a   Johnson Laird, Philip N ^b  

^a SWPS UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES   (Poland)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Deductive reasoning; Mental models; Relations; Sentential connectives

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; LOGIC; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY;

ADULT; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LOGIC; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863569244     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: 15325946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13421-011-0150-8     Document Type: Article

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