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Direct linkKhemlani, Sangeet S.; Byrne, Ruth M. J.; Johnson-Laird, Philip N. – Cognitive Science, 2018
This article presents a fundamental advance in the theory of mental models as an explanation of reasoning about facts, possibilities, and probabilities. It postulates that the meanings of compound assertions, such as conditionals ("if") and disjunctions ("or"), unlike those in logic, refer to conjunctions of epistemic…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Schemata (Cognition), Inferences, Prediction
Roman, Diego; Jones, Francesca; Basaraba, Deni; Hironaka, Stephanie – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2016
The difficulties that students face when reading science texts go beyond understanding vocabulary and syntactic structures. Comprehension of science texts requires students to infer how these texts function as a unit to communicate scientific meaning. To help students in this process, science texts sometimes employ logical connectives (e.g.,…
Descriptors: Visual Aids, Science Instruction, Form Classes (Languages), Inferences
