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Direct linkRehder, Bob – Cognitive Science, 2017
This article assesses how people reason with categories whose features are related in causal cycles. Whereas models based on causal graphical models (CGMs) have enjoyed success modeling category-based judgments as well as a number of other cognitive phenomena, CGMs are only able to represent causal structures that are acyclic. A number of new…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Logical Thinking, Causal Models, Graphs
Singh, Raj; Fedorenko, Evelina; Mahowald, Kyle; Gibson, Edward – Cognitive Science, 2016
According to one view of linguistic information (Karttunen, 1974; Stalnaker, 1974), a speaker can convey contextually new information in one of two ways: (a) by "asserting" the content as new information; or (b) by "presupposing" the content as given information which would then have to be "accommodated." This…
Descriptors: Semantics, Pragmatics, Sentences, Discourse Analysis
Unsworth, Sara J.; Medin, Douglas L. – Cognitive Science, 2005
Norenzayan, Smith, Jun Kim, and Nisbett (2002) investigated cultural differences in the use of intuitive versus formal reasoning in 4 experiments. Our comment concerns the 4th experiment where Norenzayan et al. reported that, although there were no cultural differences in accuracy on abstract logical arguments, Koreans made more errors than U.S.…
Descriptors: Logical Thinking, Experiments, Cultural Differences, Persuasive Discourse
