LJ Kelly, S Khemlani - Journal of Experimental Psychology …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
People can explain phenomena by appealing to temporal relations, for example, you might explain a colleague's absence at a meeting by inferring that their prior meeting ended late …
I describe a novel model-based theory of how individuals reason deductively about temporal relations. It posits that temporal assertions refer to mental models--iconic representations of …