An investigation into the online processing of counterfactual and indicative conditionals

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2009

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Stewart, Andrew
Haigh, Matthew
Kidd, Evan

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Parapsychology Press

Abstract

The ability to represent conditional information is central to human cognition. In two self-paced reading experiments we investigated how readers process counterfactual conditionals (e.g., If Darren had been athletic, he could probably have played on the

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Keywords: analysis of variance; article; cognition; female; human; language; male; online system; physiology; problem solving; reading; thinking; time; Analysis of Variance; Cognition; Female; Humans; Language; Male; Online Systems; Problem Solving; Reading; Thinki Counterfactual conditionals; Indicative conditionals; Suppositional theory; Text processing

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Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

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Journal article

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