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2006
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A Model of Plausibility
Plausibility has been implicated as playing a critical role in many cognitive phenomena from comprehension to problem solving. Yet, across cognitive science, plausibility is usual...
Louise Connell, Mark T. Keane
COGSCI
2006
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Arrows in Comprehending and Producing Mechanical Diagrams
Mechanical systems have structural organizations--parts, and their relations--and functional organizations--temporal, dynamic, and causal processes--which can be explained using t...
Julie Heiser, Barbara Tversky
COGSCI
2006
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Relations, Objects, and the Composition of Analogies
This research addresses the kinds of matching elements that determine analogical relatedness and literal similarity. Despite theoretical agreement on the importance of relational ...
Dedre Gentner, Kenneth J. Kurtz
COGSCI
2006
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Is the Brain a Quantum Computer?
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...
COGSCI
2006
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The Interpretation of Classically Quantified Sentences: A Set-Theoretic Approach
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 ...