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An investigation into the online processing of counterfactual and indicative conditionals

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Authors

Stewart, Andrew

Haigh, Matthew

Kidd, Evan

Publisher

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

Keywords

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

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/80163

Collections

ANU Research Publications

Source

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Type

Journal article

DOI

10.1080/17470210902973106

Restricted until

2037-12-31

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