Processing of Logically Valid and Logically Invalid Conditional Inferences in Discourse Comprehension

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 59-68

  Rader, Aaron W ^a,b   Sloutsky, Vladimir M ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AMERICAN RED CROSS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; LOGIC; MALE; PROBLEM SOLVING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS;

ADULT; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGIC; MALE; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS;

EID: 85047670924     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.28.1.59     Document Type: Article

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