How semantic memory processes temper causal inferences

Cognition and Conditionals: Probability and Logic in Human Thinking

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Cummins, Denise ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Causal inference; Counterexample; Parameterized model; Semantic memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921557794     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199233298.003.0012     Document Type: Chapter

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