International Meeting on Mental Models and Reasoning

 

Programme for Talks

 

Wednesday 22nd March 2006

 

9.00              Byrne, R.

                         Trinity College Dublin, University of Dublin, Ireland

Counterfactuals

 

9:30              Girotto, V. and Pighin, S.

University of Venice and University of Trento, Italy

Focussing effects in counterfactual thinking

 

10.00            Legrenzi, P. and Sonino-Legrenzi, M.

University of Venice, Italy

Johnson-Laird’s theory on creativity: Evidence and comments

 

10.30            Coffee/tea

 

11.00            Barouillet, P. and Lecas, J. F.

University of Bourgogne, France

Reasoning about, and reasoning from, conditionals are two different processes but they rely on the same mental models representation                  

 

11.30            Evans, J. Handley, S. and Over, D.

University of Plymouth, UK

Individual differences in the mental representation of conditional sentences

 

12.00            Schroyens, W. and Schaeken, W.

University of Leuven, Belgium

SSCEPPTRE and other models of conditional reasoning by model

 

12.30            Lunch

 

2.30              Thompson, V.

                        University of Saskatchewan, Canada

What can we believe about belief-bias?

 

3.00               Mackiewicz, R.

Warsaw School of Social Psychology, Poland

Reasoning or reacting to probabilities? A comparison of the mental models and probabilistic accounts of conditional reasoning

 

3.30               Knauff, M.

University of Freiburg, Germany

Visual images can be a nuisance in reasoning: Evidence from behavioural studies and fMRI

 

4.00               Coffee/tea

 

4.30               Oatley, K.

University of Toronto, Canada

Externalization of mental models: The case for maps and the case for writing

 

5.00               Ormerod, T.

University of Lancaster, UK

Constructing and testing models in a world of deception and dishonesty

 

5.30               Bucciarelli, M.  and Johnson-Laird, P. N.

Center for Cognitive Science, University of Torino, Italy and Princeton University, USA

Illusions in deontic reasoning

 

7.00               Dinner

                        La Stampa Restaurant, 35 Dawson Street, Dublin 2

 

 

 


Thursday 23rd March 2006

 

9.00               García-Madruga, J., Carriedo, N.  and  Moreno-Rios, S.

UNED Madrid, and University of Granada, Spain

What do "unless" conditionals teach us about human reasoning?

 

9.30               McCloy, R.

University of Reading, UK

Understanding cumulative risk

 

10.00            Mancini, F. and Gangemi, A.

Association of Cognitive Psychology (APC), Rome and University of Cagliari, Italy

Guilt and reasoning

 

10.30            Coffee/tea

 

11.00            Poster session

 

12.30            Lunch

 

2.30               Vandierendonck, A.

Ghent University, Belgium

On reasoning with family relations

 

3.00               van der Henst, J-B. and Schaeken, W.

Institute for Cognitive Science, Lyon, France and University of Leuven, Belgium

The wording of conclusions in relational reasoning

 

3.30               Walsh, C., Hasson, U. and Johnson-Laird, P. N.

University of Plymouth, UK, University of Chicago, and Princeton University, USA

A change of mind

 

4.00               Coffee/tea

 

4.30               Tabossi, P.

University of Trieste, Italy

The identification and comprehension of idiomatic expressions

 

5.00               Garnham, A. and Cowles, W.

University of Sussex, UK and University of Florida, USA

JANUS - a mental models based account of coreferential NP anaphor processing

 

5.30               Sloutsky, V

                      Ohio State University, USA

Minimalist representation of premises: Evidence from memory and comprehension

 

6.00               Johnson-Laird, P. N.

                      Princeton University, USA

                        Unconscious reasoning

 

6.30               Farewell Reception


International Meeting on Mental Models and Reasoning

 

Programme for Posters

 

 

 Thursday 23rd March 2006, 11.00 - 12.30

 

1.       Cowley, M. and Byrne, R.

University of Southampton, UK and Trinity College Dublin, University of Dublin, Ireland

Falsification and alternative hypotheses in the 2-4-6 task

 

2.       Egan, S. and Byrne, R.

Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, and Trinity College Dublin, University of Dublin, Ireland

Deductive reasoning from counterfactual conditionals

 

3.       Espino, O., Santamaria, C. and Byrne, R.

University of La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain and University of Dublin, Trinity College, Ireland

True and false possibilities in conditionals and biconditional sentences

 

4.       Frosch, C.

Trinity College Dublin, University of Dublin, Ireland

How we revise our beliefs about enabling conditions

 

5.       Geiger, S.

University of Potsdam, Germany

Paraphrasing conditionals and disjunctions - does it reveal the meaning of conditionals?

 

6.       Jahn, G.

Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany

Spatial relational reasoning with mental models

 

7.       Juhos, Cs. and Quelhas, A. C.

            ISPA, Lisbon, Portugal

           Priming with everyday conditionals

 

8.       Lee, N. Y. L. Goodwin, G. P and Johnson-Laird, P.N.

Princeton University, USA

The psychology of Su Doku problems

 

9.       McEleney, A.

Northumbria University, UK

The meanings of conditional and causal statements

 

10.     Murray, A. and Byrne, R.

Trinity College Dublin, University of Dublin, Ireland

Reasoning with insight problems

 

11.     Pereda-Banos, A. Garavan, H. and Byrne, R.

Trinity College Dublin, University of Dublin, Ireland

Attention and reasoning

 

12.     Ragni, M.

University of Freiburg, Germany

A computational model for reasoning with spatial mental models.

 

13.     Tasso, A. and Cherubini, P.

University of Padua and University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy

Truth and assertability conditions of factual, and counterfactual conditionals

 

14.     Bara, B. G.

Center for Cognitive Science, University of Torino, Italy

Embodiment of intentions

 

15.     Cherubini, P. and Bianchi, A.

University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy

Mental models and matching bias explain performance in a complex version of Wason's selection task better than information gain theory

 

16.    Stupple, E. J. N. and Ball, L. J.

University of Derby and Lancaster University, UK

Inspection-time analysis of syllogistic reasoning processes in the evaluation paradigm

          

17.   Steingold, G.

            Education Development Center, MA, USA

            Models and beginnings of algebraic thinking in young children

 

18.    Yang, Y.

            Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York, USA

            A mental model method accounting for schema weights

 

19.       Bonnefon, J. F., Eid, M., Vautier, S. and Jmel, S.

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France, University of Geneva, Switzerland and University of Toulouse, France

Individual differences in pragmatic modulation: a latent class approach to reasoning with conditional arguments

 

 

 

List of Delegates

 Authors and Co-Authors

 

Ball, Linden                                         l.ball@lancaster.ac.uk  

Bara, Bruno                                         bruno.bara@psych.unito.it  

Barouillet, Pierre

     Pierre.Barouillet@u-bourgogne.fr 

Bonnefon, Jean-Francois                   bonnefon@univ-tlse2.fr          

Bucciarelli, Monica                              monica@psych.unito.it

Byrne, Ruth                                         rmbyrne@tcd.ie

Carriedo, Nuria                                    ncarriedo@psi.uned.es  

Cowley, Michelle                                 M.Cowley@soton.ac.uk  

Egan, Suzanne                                   suzanne.egan@mic.ul.ie

Espino, Orlando                                  oespinom@ull.es  

Evans, Jonathan                                 J.Evans@plymouth.ac.uk

Frosch, Caren                                     froschc@tcd.ie

Gangemi, Amelia                                gangemi@azienda2000.it  

Garavan, Hugh                                    Hugh.Garavan@tcd.ie

García-Madruga, Juan                        jmadruga@psi.uned.es  

 

Garnham, Alan                                    A.Garnham@sussex.ac.uk  

Geiger, Sonja                                      geiger@rz.uni-potsdam.de  

Girotto, Vittorio                                    vgirotto@iuav.it

Goodwin, Geoffrey                              ggoodwin@princeton.edu      

Handley, Simon                                   S.Handley@plymouth.ac.uk  

Jahn, Georg                                        georg.jahn@phil.tu-chemnitz.de

Johnson-Laird, Phil                             phil@princeton.edu  

Juhos, Csongor                                  Csongor.Juhos@ispa.pt  

Knauff, Markus                                    knauff@cognition.uni-freiburg.de

Lecas, Jean-Francois

        jean-francois.lecas@u-bourgogne.fr

Lee, Louis                                           ngarlee@princeton.edu         

Legrenzi, Maria

Legrenzi, Paolo                                   legrenzi@iuav.it  

Mackiewicz, Robert                            rmackiew@swps.edu.pl

Mancini, Francesco                            mancini@apc.it  

McCloy, Rachel                                   r.a.mccloy@reading.ac.uk  

McEleney, Alice                                   alice.mceleney@unn.ac.uk  

Moreno-Rios, Sergio                           semoreno@ugr.es  

Murray, Aisling                                     murray.aisling@gmail.com 

Oatley, Keith                                       koatley@oise.utoronto.ca  

Ormerod, Tom                                                t.ormerod@lancaster.ac.uk   

Pereda Banos, Alexandre                   peredaba@tcd.ie  

Pighin, Stefania                                   pighin@form.unitn.it  

Quelhas, A. Cristina                            Ana.Quelhas@ispa.pt

Ragni, Marco                                       ragni@informatik.uni-freiburg.de Santamaria, Carlos                                    csantam@ull.es  

Schaeken, Walter

Walter.Schaeken@psy.kuleuven.be 

Schroyens, Walter                                 walter.schroyens@psy.kuleuven.be

Sloutsky, Vladimir                               VSloutsky@hec.ohio-state.edu

Steingold, Genya                                 gsteingold@edc.org   

Stupple, Edward                                 E.J.N.Stupple@derby.ac.uk   

Tabossi, Patrizia                                 tabossi@univ.trieste.it           

Tasso, Alessandra                              atasso@unipd.it         

Thompson, Valerie                              Valerie.Thompson@usask.ca  

van der Henst, Jean-Baptiste vanderhenst@isc.cnrs.fr  

Vandierendonck, Andre

         Andre.Vandierendonck@ugent.be

Walsh, Clare                                       clare.walsh@plymouth.ac.uk  

Yang, Yingrui                                       yangyri@rpi.edu  


Other Delegates

Baldwin, Moira

Costello, Fintan

Dixon, James

Elqayam, Shira

Hohnisch, Martin        

Keane, Mark

Larkin, Paul

O’Mara, Shane

Pittnauer, Sabine

Smith, Howard

Thomas, Kevin

Weller, Adrian

Whiriskey, Niamh

Yore, Ronan