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Fernandes, Eunice G.; Luegi, Paula; Correa Soares, Eduardo; de la Fuente, Israel; Hemforth, Barbara – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2018
Previous research accounting for pronoun resolution as a problem of probabilistic inference has not explored the phenomenon of adaptation, whereby the processor constantly tracks and adapts, rationally, to changes in a statistical environment. We investigate whether Brazilian (BP) and European Portuguese (EP) speakers adapt to variations in the…
Descriptors: Portuguese, Form Classes (Languages), Adjustment (to Environment), Probability
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Douven, Igor; Verbrugge, Sara – Cognitive Science, 2013
According to what is now commonly referred to as "the Equation" in the literature on indicative conditionals, the probability of any indicative conditional equals the probability of its consequent of the conditional given the antecedent of the conditional. Philosophers widely agree in their assessment that the triviality arguments of…
Descriptors: Probability, Semantics, Logical Thinking, Equations (Mathematics)