How does a listener understand a sarcastic'That was a wonderful speech'when the words
point to a positive review? Why do students of introductory logic interpret'Some cabs are …

An argument that the meaning of written or auditory linguistic signals is not derived from the
input but results from the brain's internal construction process. When we read a text or listen …

There has been a great expansion of research into human reasoning at all of Marr's
explanatory levels. There is a tendency for this work to progress within a level largely …

Popular dual process models have characterized reasoning as an interplay between fast,
intuitive (System 1) and slow, deliberate (System 2) processes, but the precise nature of the …

To answer the question of how brain pathology affects reasoning about negative emotional
content, we administered a disjunctive logical reasoning task involving arguments with …

Deductive reasoning is traditionally viewed as a unitary process involving either rule-based
or visuo-spatial mechanisms. However, there is a disagreement in the neuroimaging …

Cognitive neuroscience boils down to describing the ways in which cognitive function results
from brain activity. In turn, brain activity shows complex fluctuations, with structure at many …

Introduction Logically valid deductive arguments are clear examples of abstract recursive
computational procedures on propositions or on probabilities. However, it is not known if the …

Comprehenders are known to generate expectations about upcoming linguistic input at the
sentence and discourse level. However, most previous studies on prediction focused mainly …

This study investigates the ERP components associated with the processing of words that
are critical to generating and rejecting deductive conditional Modus Ponens arguments (If P …