Dual processes in the development of the understanding of conditionals

The Science of Reason: A Festschrift for Jonathan St B.T. Evans

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 191-215

  Barrouillet, Pierre ^a   Gauffroy, Caroline ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

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