How people differ in syllogistic reasoning

Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2016

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 2165-2170

  Khemlani, Sangeet ^a   Johnson Laird, P N ^b,c  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

counterexamples; deduction; individual differences; mental models; mReasoner; syllogisms

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTATION THEORY; PROCESS CONTROL;

COUNTEREXAMPLE; DEDUCTION; DUAL-PROCESS THEORIES; ICONICS; INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES; MENTAL MODEL; MREASONER; REASONERS; STOCHASTICS; SYLLOGISM;

STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

EID: 85130429104     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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