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Interactivity fosters Bayesian reasoning without instruction
Successful statistical reasoning emerges from a dynamic system including: a cognitive agent, material artifacts with their actions …
Gaëlle Vallée-Tourangeau
,
Marlène Abadie
,
Frédéric Vallée-Tourangeau
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Experimental pragmatics, risk communication, and reasoning
This research programme focuses on the pragmatic processes involved in communicating uncertainties, quantities and in logical reasoning.
Learning and interactivity in solving a transformation problem
We investigated the role of interactivity in problem solving using a river-crossing problem. We found greater facility to transfer …
Lisa G. Guthrie
,
Frédéric Vallée-Tourangeau
,
Gaëlle Vallée-Tourangeau
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The spatio-temporal dynamics of systemic thinking
Recent developments in cognitive science reject the classical view of cognition as a cerebral activity involving the rule-based …
Gaëlle Vallée-Tourangeau
,
Frédéric Vallée-Tourangeau
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Relevance-driven information search in 'Pseudodiagnostic' reasoning
When faced with two competing hypotheses, people sometimes prefer to look at multiple sources of information in support of one …
Gaëlle Villejoubert
,
Frédéric Vallée-Tourangeau
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Interactive Insight Problem Solving
Insight problem solving was investigated with the matchstick algebra problems developed by Knoblich, Ohlsson, Haider, and Rhenius …
Anna Weller
,
Gaëlle Villejoubert
,
Frédéric Vallée-Tourangeau
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La résolution de problème naturalisée [Naturalised problem-solving]
A striking feature of people engaged in problem solving activities outside the psychologist’s laboratory is that it exhibits a great …
Frédéric Vallée-Tourangeau
,
Gaëlle Villejoubert
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When some is actually all: Scalar inferences in face-threatening contexts
Accounts of the scalar inference from ‘some X-ed’ to ‘not all X-ed’ are central to the debate between contemporary theories of …
Jean-François Bonnefon
,
Aidan Feeney
,
Gaëlle Villejoubert
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Modus Tollens, Modus Shmollens: Contrapositive reasoning and the pragmatics of negation
The utterance of a negative statement invites the pragmatic inference that some reason exists for the proposition it negates to be …
Jean-François Bonnefon
,
Gaëlle Villejoubert
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