Department of Psychology: Recent submissions

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    • Indicative and Counterfactual 'only if' conditionals'. 

      Egan, Suzanne M.; García-Madruga, Juan A.; Byrne, Ruth M.J. (Elsevier, 2009-11)
      We report three experiments to test the possibilities reasoners think about when they understand a con-ditional of the form ‘A only if B’ compared to ‘if A then B’. The experiments examine conditionals in the indicative ...

    • Perceptual modalities: modes of presentation or modes of interaction? 

      McGann, Marek (Imprint Academic, 2010)
      Perceptual modalities have been traditionally considered the product of dedicated biological systems producing information for higher cognitive processing. Psychological and neuropsychological evidence is offered which ...

    • Enactive theorists do it on purpose: on why the enactive approach demands an account of goals and goal-directedness. 

      McGann, Marek (Springer Netherlands, 2007)
      The enactive approach to cognitive science involves frequent references to “action” without making clear what is intended by the term. In particular, no definition or account is offered of goals which can encompass not ...

    • Self-other contingencies: enacting social perception 

      McGann, Marek; De Jaegher, Hanne (Springer Netherlands, 2009)
      Can we see the expressiveness of other people's gestures, hear the intentions in their voice, see the emotions in their posture? Traditional theories of social cognition still say we cannot, because intentions and emotions ...

    • Counterfactual and Prefactual Conditionals 

      Egan, Suzanne M.; Byrne, Ruth M.J. (Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 2004)
      We consider reasoning about prefactual possibilities in the future, for example, “if I were to win the lottery next year I would buy a yacht” and counterfactual possibilities, for example, “if I had won the lottery last ...