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Listed below are articles on mental models in reasoning in 2001 supplied by individual researchers. There is also a list of latest publications in press  and a list of publications in 1998/1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005.

2001 Journal articles:

Bara, B., Bucciarelli, M. & Lombardo, V. 2001. Model theory of deduction: A unified computational approach. Cognitive Science, 25, 839-901.

Barrouillet, P., Markovits, H, & Quinn, S. (2001). Developmental and content effects in reasoning with causal conditionals. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 81, 235-248.

Bucciarelli, M., & Johnson-Laird, P.N. (2001). Falsification and the role of the theory of mind in the reduced array selection task. Current Psychology Letters, 4, 7-22.

Copeland, D. E., & Radvansky, G. A. (2001). Phonological similarity in working memory. Memory & Cognition, 29, 774-776.

Engel, P. (2001). The false modesty of the identity theory of truth. International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 9, 4, 441-458.

Engel, P. (2001) The norms of thought: are they social? Mind and Society, 3, 129-148. 

GarcÌa-Madruga, J.A., Moreno, S., Carriedo, N.,  GutiÈrrez, F., & Johnson-Laird, P.N.  (2001). Are conjunctive inferences easier than disjunctive inferences? A comparison of rules and models. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 54A, 613-632.

GarcÌa-Madruga, J.A. & SantamarÌa, C. (2001). PlatÛn, Wittgenstein y el marco øPuede resolver Vygotsky alguno de estos problemas? Anuario de PsicologÌa, 32, 3, 100-105.

Goel, V. & Dolan, R.J. (2001). Functional Neuroanatomy of Three-Term Relational Reasoning. Neuropsychologia, 39, 9, 901-909.

Goldvarg, Y., & Johnson-Laird, P.N. (2001). NaÔve causality: a mental model theory of causal meaning and reasoning. Cognitive Science, 25, 565-610.

Johnson-Laird, P.N. (2001). Mental models and deduction.  Trends in Cognitive Science, 5, 434-442.

Magliano, J. P., & Radvansky, G. A. (2001). Goal coordination in narrative comprehension. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 8, 372-376.

Meiser T., Klauer K. C.  & Naumer B. (2001). Propositional reasoning and working memory: The role of prior training and pragmatic contents. Acta Psychologica, 106, 303-327.

Rader, A. W., & Sloutsky, V. M. (2001). Conjunction bias in memory representations of logical connectives. Memory & Cognition, 29, 6, 838-849.

Radvansky, G. A., Zwaan, R. A., Curiel, J. M., & Copeland, D. E. (2001). Situation models and aging. Psychology and Aging, 16, 145-160.

Radvansky, G. A., & Copeland, D. E. (2001). Working memory and situation model updating. Memory & Cognition, 29, 1073-1080.

Roberts, M.J., Newstead, S.E. & Griggs, R.A. (2001). Quantifier interpretation and syllogistic reasoning. Thinking and Reasoning, 7, 173-204.

SantamarÌa, Espino, O. & GarcÌa-Madruga (2001). Theories of reasoning  and the representational level: A reply to Oaksford. Thinking and reasoning, 7, 2, 209-213.

Schaeken, W., Schroyens, W., & Dieussaert, K. (2001). Conditionals assertions, tense, and explicit negatives. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 13, 4, 433-450.

Verschueren, N., Schroyens, W., Schaeken, W., & díYdewalle, G. (2001). Why do participants draw non-valid inferences in conditional reasoning? Current Psychology Letters: Behaviour, Brain, & Cognition, 6, 57-70.

Yang, Y., & Johnson-Laird, P.N. (2001). Mental models and logical reasoning problems in the GRE. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 7,4, 308-316.

2001 Books & Book Chapters:

Engel, P. (2001). Logica, ragionamento e constanti logische. Ch. 3 de P. Cherubini, P. Giaretta et A. Mazzocco, (Eds.). Ragionamento,  psicologia e logica, Giunti , Firenze. 108-127. Version anglaise: http://www.institutnicod.org/notices.php?user=Engel

Engel, P. (2001). Is truth a Norm? In P. Pagin, G. Segal  & P. Kotatko (Eds.).  Interpreting Davidson, Stanford, CSLI. Pp. 37-51.

Espino, O. Santamaria, C. & Byrne, R.M.J. (2001). Supresion de inferencias en condicionales. In Fernandez Berrocal, P. & Santamaria, C. (Eds). Manual practico de psicologia del pensamiento. Barcelona: Ariel. Pp. 37-49. 

Gattis, M. (2001). Space as a basis for abstract thought. In M. Gattis (Ed.), Spatial schemas and abstract thought (pp. 1-12). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Gattis, M. (2001). Mapping conceptual and spatial schemas. In M. Gattis (Ed.), Spatial schemas and abstract thought (pp.223-245). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Gattis, M. (2001). Space as a basis for reasoning. In J. S. Gero, B. Tversky, and T. Purcell (Eds.), Visual and Spatial Reasoning in Design II (pp. 15-24). Sydney, Australia: Key Centre of Design Computing and Cognition.

Johnson-Laird, P.N. (2001). Mental models and human reasoning.  In Dupoux, E. (Ed.). Language, Brain, and Cognitive Development: Essays in honor of J. Mehler.  Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.  Pp. 85-102.

Johnson-Laird, P.N. (2001). Reasoning with mental models.  In Smelser, N.J.& Baltes, P.B. (Eds.). International Encyclopedia of Social & Behavorial Sciences. Oxford: Pergamon.  Pp. 12 ,821-12, 824.

Knauff, M., & Johnson-Laird, P.N. (2001). Visual imagery can retard reasoning.  Annual Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Sacco, K., Bucciarelli, M. & Adenzato, M. (2001). Mental models and the meaning of connectives: a study on children, adolescents and adults. Proceedings of the XXIII Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, J.D. Moore & K. Stenning (Eds.). Edinburgh, Scotland: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Pp. 875-880.  

Quayle, J. D., & Ball, L. J. (2001). Cognitive uncertainty in syllogistic reasoning: An alternative mental models theory. In J. D. Moore, & K. Stenning (Eds.). Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Annual Conference of  the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Pp. 792-797.

Walsh, C.R. & Johnson-Laird, P.N. (2001). The semantic modulation of deductive premises. In J.D. Moore & K. Stenning (Eds.). Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Pp. 1084 - 1088.

Walsh, C.R. & Byrne, R.M.J. (2001). A computational model of counterfactual thinking: The temporal order effect. In J.D. Moore & K. Stenning (Eds.). Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Pp. 1078 - 1083.

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The aim is for this list to be a complete one. If you believe it omits some relevant references, please send me the details at rmbyrne@tcd.ie