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Listed below are articles on mental models in reasoning in 1998/99 supplied by individual researchers. There is also a list of latest publications in press and a list of publications in 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005.

Journal articles

Baguley, T. S., & Payne, S. J. (1999). Memory for spatial descriptions: A test of the
episodic construction trace hypothesis. Memory and Cognition, 27, 962-973.

Barrouillet, P. , & Lecas, J.F. (1998). How can mental models theory account for content effects in conditional reasoning? A developmental perspective. Cognition, 67, 209-253.

Barrouillet, P., & Lecas, J.F. (1999). Mental models in conditional reasoning and working memory. Thinking & Reasoning, 5(4), 289-302.

Bell, V., and Johnson-Laird, P.N. (1998) A model theory of modal reasoning.
Cognitive Science, 22, 25-51.

Bucciarelli M. & Johnson-Laird, P. N. (1999). Strategies in syllogistic reasoning.
Cognitive Science, Vol. 23 (3), 247-303.

Byrne, R.M.J. (1998). Spatial mental models in counterfactual thinking about what
might have been. Kognitionswissenschaft, 7, 19-26.

Byrne, R.M.J., Espino, O. & Santamaria, C. (1998). Context and inference
suppression. Analise Psicologica, 210-214.

Byrne, R.M.J., Espino, O. & Santamaria, C. (1999). Counterexamples and the
suppression of inferences. Journal of Memory & Language, 40, 347-373.

Byrne, R.M.J. and Tasso, A. (1999). Deductive reasoning with factual, possible,
and counterfactual conditionals. Memory & Cognition, 27, 726-740.

Cherubini, P., Garnham, A., Oakhill, J. V., & Morley, E. (1998). Can any ostrich
fly? Some new data on belief bias in syllogistic reasoning. Cognition, 69, 179-218.

De Vooght, G. & Vandierendonck, A. (1998). Spatial mental models in linear
reasoning. Kognitionswissenschaft, 7, 5-10.
Dieussaert, K., Schaeken, W., Schroyens, W., & d,Ydewalle, G. (1999). Strategies
for dealing with complex deductive problems: Combining and dividing. Psychologica
Belgica, 39, 215-234.

Evans, J.St.B.T. (1998). Matching bias in conditional reasoning: Do we understand
it after 25 years? Thinking & Reasoning, 4, 45-82.

Evans, J.St.B.T., and Handley, S.J. (1999). The role of negation in conditional
inference. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 52A, 739-770.

Evans, J.St.B.T., Handley. S.J. & Buck, E. (1998). Ordering of information in
conditional reasoning. British Journal of Psychology, 89, 383-404.

Evans, J.St.B.T., Handley, S.J., Harper, C.N.J., & Johnson-Laird, P.N. (1999). Reasoning about necessity and possibility: A test of the mental model theory of deduction. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 25, 1495-1513.

Evans, J.St.B.T., Legrenzi, P. & Girotto, V. (1999). The influence of linguistic
form on reasoning: the case of matching bias. Quarterly Journal of Experimental
Psychology, 52A, 185-216

Fairley, N., Manktelow, K.I. & Over, D.E. (1999). Necessity, sufficiency and
perspective in causal conditional reasoning. Quarterly Journal of Experimental
Psychology, 52A, 771-790.

Goel, V., Gold, B., Kapur, S., & Houle, S. (1998). Neuroanatomical Correlates
of Human Reasoning. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Vol. 10, No. 3, pp.293-302.

Green, D.W. (1998). Cognition in context: an argument model approach to public
representations. Analise Psicologica (Special Isssue), pp. 271-291.

Green, D.W. (1998). Refocusing on the data: a reply to Hardman. Thinking and
Reasoning, 4, 95-96.

Green, D.W., McClelland, A., Muckli, L., & Simmons, C. (1999). Arguments and deontic decisions. Acta Psychologica, 101, 27-47.

Green, D.W., McManus, I.C., & Derrick, B. (1998). Cognitive structural models of employment and unemployment. British Journal of Social Psychology, 37, 415-438.

Green, D.W. & Over, D.E. (1998). Reaching a decision: a reply to Oaksford.
Thinking & Reasoning, 4, 187-192.

Hardman, D. (1998). Does reasoning occur on the selection task? A comparison of
relevance-based theories. Thinking & Reasoning, 4(4), 353-376.
Hardman, D.K. (1998). De-focusing on the Wason selection task: mental models
or mental inference rules? - A commentary on Green and Larking (1995). Thinking &
Reasoning, 4, 83-94.

Janveau-Brennan, G. and Markovits, H. (1999). Reasoning with causal conditionals:
Developmental and individual differences, Developmental Psychology, 35(4),
904-911.

Johnson-Laird, P.N. (1999) Deductive reasoning. Annual Review of Psychology.

Johnson-Laird, P.N, & Byrne, R.M.J. (1999) Models rule, OK? A reply to Fetzer.
Minds and Machines.

Johnson-Laird, P.N., Girotto, V., and Legrenzi, P. (1999) Modelli mentali: una
guida facile per il profano. Sistemi Intelligenti, 9, 63-83. [Mental models: A gentle guide for outsiders]

Johnson-Laird, P.N., Legrenzi, P., Girotto, V., Legrenzi, M., and Caverni, J-P.
(1999) Naive probability: a mental model theory of extensional reasoning.
Psychological Review, 106, 62-88.

Johnson-Laird, P.N., & Savary, F. (1999). Illusory inferences: A novel class of erroneous deductions. Cognition, 71, 191-229.

Klauer, K. C. (1998). Visuelle und raeumliche Interferenzen beim Schlussfolgern
[Visual and spatial interferences in reasoning]. Kognitionswissenschaft, 7, 11-18.

Klauer, K. C. (1999). On the normative justification for information gain in Wason's
selection task. Psychological Review, 106, 215-222.

Lecas, J.F., & Barrouillet, P. (1999). Understanding conditional rules in childhood and adolescence: A mental models approach. Current Psychology of Cognition, 18 (3), 363-396.

Markovits, H., Fleury, M.-L., Quinn, S., Venet, M. (1998). Conditional reasoning
and the structure of semantic memory. Child Development, 64(3), 742-755.

Quinn, S. and Markovits, H. (1998). Conditional Reasoning, Causality, and the
Structure of Semantic Memory: Strength of Association as a Predictive Factor for
Content Effects. Cognition, 68, B93-B101.

Santamaría, C., García-Madruga, J.A., and Johnson-Laird, P.N. (1998) Reasoning
from double conditionals: The effects of logical structure and believability. Thinking
& Reasoning, 4, 97-122.

Schaeken, W., Girotto, V., & Johnson-Laird, P. N. (1998). The effect of an
irrelevant premise on temporal and spatial reasoning. Kognitionswisschenschaft, 7,
27-32.

Schroyens, W., Schaeken, W., & d'Ydewalle, G. (1999). Error and bias in
meta-propositional reasoning: A case of the mental models theory. Thinking and
Reasoning, 5, 29-65.

Schroyens, W., Schaeken, W., Verschueren, N., & d,Ydewalle, G. (1999).
Conditional reasoning with negations: Matching bias and implicit versus explicit
affirmation or denial. Psychologica Belgica, 39, 235-258.

Shaw, V.F., and Johnson-Laird, P.N. (1998) Dispelling the 'atmosphere' effect in
reasoning. Analise Psicologia, Special issue on Cognition and Context, (eds)
Quelhas, A.C., and Pereira, F., 169-199.

Vadeboncoeur, I. and Markovits, H. (1999). The effect of instructions and
information retrieval on accepting the premises in a conditional reasoning task,
Thinking and Reasoning, 5(2), 97-113.

Book chapters

Ball, L.J., & Quayle, J.D. (1999). The effects of belief and logic on syllogistic
reasoning: Evidence from an eye-tracking analysis. In N. Hahn & S.C. Stoness
(Eds.), Proceedings of the 21st Annual Meeting of Cognitive Science Society. (pp.
49-54). Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Berendt, B., Rauh, R., & Barkowsky, T. (1998) Spatial thinking with geographic
maps: An empirical study. In H. Czap, H.-P. Ohly, & S. Pribbenow (Eds.),
Herausforderungen an die Wissensorganisation (Proceedings ISKO '97) (Vol. 5,
Fortschritte in der Wissensorganisation, pp. 63-74). Würzburg: ERGON-Verlag

Byrne, R.M.J., Tasso, A. & Thompson, V. (1999). Cognitive processes in
Counterfactual Conditionals. In K. Korta, E. Sosa & X. Arrazola (Eds.) Cognition,
Agency, and Rationality: Proceedings of the Fifth International Colloquium on
Cognitive Science. pp. 63-77. Netherlands: Kluwer.

Devetag, M.,G., Legrenzi, P., and Warglien, M., (1999), "Focusing Strategies in
Reasoning about Games", in Schaeken, W., De Vooght, G., Vandierendonck,
d'Ydewalle, (Eds.), Deductive Reasoning and Strategies, Lawrence Erlbaum Ass.,
Mahwah, NJ.

Feeney, A and Handley, S.J. (1998). The suppression of card selections in Wason's
selection task: Evidence that inference plays a role. In M. A. Gernsbacher & S. J.
Derry (Eds.) Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Society.
Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Geminiani, G. & Bucciarelli, M. (1998). Deductive reasoning in right-brain
damaged. In M. A. Gernsbacher & S. J. Derry (Eds.) Proceedings of the 20th
Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Madison,

Goldvarg, Y., and Johnson-Laird, P.N. (1999) Reasoning with causal relations. In
N. Hahn & S.C. Stoness (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty First Annual
Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 191-195.

Johnson-Laird, P.N. (1998) Illusions in reasoning. In Tabossi, P. (Ed.)
Johnson-Laird. Milano: FrancoAnglei.

Johnson-Laird, P.N. (1998) Imagery, visualization, and thinking. In Hochberg, J.,
(Ed.) Perception and Cognition at Century's End. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
pp. 441-467.

Johnson-Laird, P.N. (1999) Logic and reasoning. In Runco, M.A., and Pritzker, S.
(Eds) Encyclopedia of Creativity. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.

Johnson-Laird, P.N. (1999) Mental models. In Wilson, R.A., and Keil, F.C. (Eds.)
Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Johnson-Laird, P.N. (1999) Reasoning: formal rules vs. mental models. In
Sternberg, R.J. (Ed.) Conceptual Issues in Psychology. Cambridge, MA: MIT
Press.

Johnson-Laird, P.N. (1999) Causation, mental models, and the law. Brooklyn Law
Review, 65, 67-103.

Johnson-Laird: La vita, il percorso intellettuale, i temi, le opere. (1998) Ed. by
Tabossi, P. Milan, Italy: FrancoAngeli. [A collection of Johnson-Laird's papers with
commentary by Patrizia Tabossi.]

Johnson-Laird, P.N. (1999) Mental models. In Menaldo, C. (Ed.) Le Lauree
Honoris Causa dell'Universita di Padova, 1997-8. Padua, Italy: CLEUP Editrice.
pp. 61-69.

Johnson-Laird, P.N. (1999) Modele umyslowe a myslenie probabilistyczne. In
Chleweinskiego Z. (Ed.) Modele Umyslu. [Models of Mind] Warsaw, Poland:
Polish Scientific Publishers. pp. 215-239. ?[Translation of: Mental models and probabilistic thinking, 1994]

Johnson-Laird, P.N., Savary, F., and Bucciarelli, M. Strategies and tactics in
reasoning. (1999) In Schaeken, W.S., De Vooght, G., Vandierendonck, A., and
d'Ydewalle, G. (Eds.) Deductive Reasoning and Strategies. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Pp. 209-240.

Knauff, M., Rauh, R., Schlieder, C., and Strube, G. (1998). Continuity effect and figural bias in spatial relational inference. In M. A. Gernsbacher and S. J. Derry (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 573-578). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Knauff, M., Rauh, R., Schlieder, C., and Strube, G. (1998). Mental models in spatial reasoning. In C. Freksa, C. Habel, and K. F. Wender (Eds.), Spatial cognition. An interdisciplinary approach to representing and processing spatial knowledge (pp. 267-291). Berlin: Springer-Verlag.

McCloy, R.A., & Byrne, R.M.J. (1999). Thinking about what might have been
different and what might have been the same) In J. Dunnion, G. O'Hare, S. O
Nuallain, R. Reilly & B. Smyth (Eds.), Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science
98. Dublin: University College Dublin.

McCloy, R.A., & Byrne, R.M.J. (1999). Thinking about what might have been: if only,
even if, causality and emotions. In N. Hahn & S.C. Stoness (Eds.), Proceedings of
the 21st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society . Hillsdale: Erlbaum.

McEleney, A., & Byrne, R. M. J. (1999). Consequences of counterfactual reasoning
and causal reasoning. In Bagnara, S. (Ed.) European Conference on Cognitive
Science '99 (pp. 199-205). Siena, Italy: University of Siena.

McEleney, A. & Byrne, R. M. J. (1999). Spontaneous counterfactual thoughts and
explanations. (pp. 205-210) In J. Dunnion, G. O'Hare, S. O Nuallain, R. Reilly &
B. Smyth (Eds.), Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science '98. Dublin:
University College Dublin.

Neth, H., and Johnson-Laird, P.N. (1999) The search for counterexamples in
human reasoning. In N. Hahn & S.C. Stoness (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty
First Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 806.

Schaeken, W., & d,Ydewalle, G. (1998). Temporal deductive reasoning. In V. De
Keyser, G. d,Ydewalle, & A. Vandierendonck (Eds.), Time and the dynamic control
of behavior (pp. 361-381). Göttingen: Hogrefe & Huber Publishers.

Schnall, S. & Gattis, M. (1998). Transitive inference by visual reasoning. In M. A.
Gernsbacher & S. J. Derry (Eds.) Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Conference
of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 929 - 934). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum
Associates.

Schroyens, W., Schaeken, W, Fias, W., & d'Ydewalle, G. (1999). Is there any
need for eye movement recordings during reasoning? In W. Becker, H. Deubel, & T.
Mergner (Eds.). Current Oculomotor Research: Physiological and psychological
aspects (pp. 279-285). New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.

Sloutsky, V.M., and Johnson-Laird, P.N. (1999) Problem representations and
illusions in reasoning. In N. Hahn & S.C. Stoness (Eds.), Proceedings of the
Twenty First Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 701-705.

Tabossi, P., Bell, V.A., and Johnson-Laird, P.N. (1999) Mental models in
deductive, modal, and probabilistic reasoning. In Habel, C., and Rickheit, G.
(Eds.) Mental Models in Discourse Processing and Reasoning. Berlin: John
Benjamins.

Vandierendonck, A. & De Vooght, G. (1998). Mental models and working memory
in temporal reasoning and spatial reasoning. In V. De Keyser, G. d'Ydewalle & A.
Vandierendonck (Eds.) Time and the dynamic control of behavior (pp. 383-402).
Goettingen: Hogrefe & Huber.

Yang, Y., and Johnson-Laird, P.N. (1999) A study of complex reasoning: The case
GRE 'logical' problems. In M. A. Gernsbacher & S. J. Derry (Eds.) Proceedings
of the Twenty First Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 767-771.
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