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COGSCI
2006
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The Interpretation of Classically Quantified Sentences: A Set-Theoretic Approach
Wepresentaset-theoreticmodelofthementalrepresentationofclassicallyquantifiedsentences(AllP are Q, Some P are Q, Some P are not Q,and No P are Q). We take inclusion, exclusion, and...
Guy Politzer, Jean-Baptiste Van der Henst, Claire ...
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2006
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Metacognitive Control and Optimal Learning
Lisa K. Son, Rajiv Sethi
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2006
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Memory and Mystery: The Cultural Selection of Minimally Counterintuitive Narratives
We hypothesize that cultural narratives such as myths and folktales are more likely to achieve cultural stability if they correspond to a minimally counterintuitive (MCI) cognitiv...
Ara Norenzayan, Scott Atran, Jason Faulkner, Mark ...
COGSCI
2006
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Deferred Interpretations: Why Starting Dickens is Taxing but Reading Dickens Isn't
Comprehenders often need to go beyond conventional word senses to obtain an appropriate interpretation of an expression. We report an experiment examining the processing of standa...
Brian McElree, Steven Frisson, Martin J. Pickering
COGSCI
2006
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Culture and Change Blindness
Research on perception and cognition suggests that whereas East Asians view the world holistically, attending to the entire field and relations among objects, Westerners view the ...
Takahiko Masuda, Richard E. Nisbett
COGSCI
2006
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Is the Brain a Quantum Computer?
We argue that computation via quantum mechanical processes is irrelevant to explaining how brains produce thought, contrary to the ongoing speculations of many theorists. First, q...
Abninder Litt, Chris Eliasmith, Frederick W. Kroon...
COGSCI
2006
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Idiomatic Syntactic Constructions and Language Learning
This article explores the influence of idiomatic syntactic constructions (i.e., constructions whose phrase structure rules violate the rules that underlie the construction of othe...
Michael P. Kaschak, Jenny R. Saffran
COGSCI
2006
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Arrows in Comprehending and Producing Mechanical Diagrams
Mechanical systems have structural organizations--parts, and their relations--and functional organizations--temporal, dynamic, and causal processes--which can be explained using t...
Julie Heiser, Barbara Tversky