COGSCI
2006
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2006
Wepresentaset-theoreticmodelofthementalrepresentationofclassicallyquantifiedsentences(AllP are Q, Some P are Q, Some P are not Q,and No P are Q). We take inclusion, exclusion, and...
COGSCI
2006
13 years 5 months ago
2006
COGSCI
2006
13 years 5 months ago
2006
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...
COGSCI
2006
13 years 5 months ago
2006
COGSCI
2006
13 years 5 months ago
2006
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...
COGSCI
2006
13 years 5 months ago
2006
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 ...
COGSCI
2006
13 years 5 months ago
2006
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...
COGSCI
2006
13 years 5 months ago
2006
COGSCI
2006
13 years 5 months ago
2006
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...
COGSCI
2006
13 years 5 months ago
2006
Mechanical systems have structural organizations--parts, and their relations--and functional organizations--temporal, dynamic, and causal processes--which can be explained using t...