Information processing and reasoning with premises that are empirically false: Interference, working memory, and processing speed

Markovits, Henry; Doyon, Celine

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“…At least those adults highest in cognitive capacity seem to adhere to a basic logical validity notion that will conflict with the disabler activation (e.g., De Neys, Schaeken, & d'Ydewalle, 2005a;Markovits & Doyon, 2004;Verschueren, Schaeken, & d'Ydewalle, 2005). This inhibition process is considered a second key component of the conditional reasoning process.…”

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Developmental trends in everyday conditional reasoning: The retrieval and inhibition interplay

Neys

Everaerts

2008

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

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Developmental trends in everyday conditional reasoning: The retrieval and inhibition interplay

Neys

Everaerts

2008

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

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“…There is good evidence that inhibition and working memory play important roles in logical reasoning for both adults (e.g., Markovits & Doyon, 2004), children in late childhood (8 years and older), and adolescents (de Neys & Everaerts, 2008;Handley et al, 2004;Simoneau & Markovits, 2003). Some of the tasks require participants to generate their own conclusions.…”

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Relating developments in children's counterfactual thinking and executive functions

Beck

Riggs

Gorniak

2009

Thinking & Reasoning

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The performance of 93 children aged 3 and 4 years on a battery of different counterfactual tasks was assessed. Three measures: short causal chains, location change counterfactual conditionals, and false syllogisms-but not a fourth, long causal chains-were correlated, even after controlling for age and receptive vocabulary. Children's performance on our counterfactual thinking measure was predicted by receptive vocabulary ability and inhibitory control. The role that domain general executive functions may play in 3-to 4-year olds' counterfactual thinking development is discussed.

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“…In the latter case, in order to accept the MP and MT inferences, a reasoner must inhibit interference due to activation of disabling conditions (Markovits & Doyon, 2004;Simoneau & Markovits, 2003).…”

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Conditional reasoning under time constraint: Information retrieval and inhibition

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Markovits

2010

Thinking & Reasoning

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A total of 152 students were asked to respond to a series of causal conditional (''If P then Q'') inferences with major premises for which there was variable access to information contradicting the premises. Half the students were given 12.5 s for each inference, the other half were given 8.5 s. The percentage of accepted inferences was significantly lower when the time was shorter for the MP and MT inferences, but no effect was observed for the AC and DA inferences. Results are interpreted as supporting the idea that inhibition of retrieved information contradicting the premise is necessary to explain reasoning with the MP and MT inferences under logical instructions (Markovits & Barrouillet, 2002).

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Information processing and reasoning with premises that are empirically false: Interference, working memory, and processing speed

Cited by 32 publications

References 50 publications

Developmental trends in everyday conditional reasoning: The retrieval and inhibition interplay

Developmental trends in everyday conditional reasoning: The retrieval and inhibition interplay

Relating developments in children's counterfactual thinking and executive functions

Conditional reasoning under time constraint: Information retrieval and inhibition

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