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 ...
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 ...
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
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 ...
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...
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...
Mechanical systems have structural organizations--parts, and their relations--and functional organizations--temporal, dynamic, and causal processes--which can be explained using t...