Reasoning with Exceptive Conditionals: The Case of ‘Except If’
In this paper we outline a mental model theory (Johnson-Laird & Byrne, 1991, 2002) of reasoning about the conditional except if. We report two experiments showing that the exceptive conditional except if exerted certain forms of semantic modulation and determined the inferences that individuals draw in an inference task (Experiment 1) and in a truth table task (Experiment 2). In Experiment 1 we found that there were no reliable differences [...]
Time Course of Discrimination of Smiles: Saccade Latency Assessment
Utilizando medidas de latencia sacádica de los ojos en una tarea [...]
Mental Modes: Priming of Expertise-Based Dispositions in Expertise-Unrelated Contexts
Why does the general demeanor of others change as soon as [...]
Predatory Odor Disrupts Social Novelty Preference in Long-Evans Rats
The present study examined the effects of predatory odor (cat [...]
Cognitive representations of obligation and prohibition signs when they provide the same amount of semantic information
The aim of this research was to test whether there [...]
