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

2005 Journal Articles

Bishara, A., & Radvansky, G. A. (2005). The detection and tracing of melodic key changes. Perception & Psychophysics, 67, 1-36

Bucciarelli, M. and Johnson-Laird, P.N. (2005).  Naïve deontics: a theory of meaning, representation, and reasoning. Cognitive Psychology, Vol. 50, 2, 159-193.

De Neys, W. and Dieussaert, K. (2005). Individual differences in rational thinking time. In B. G. Bara, L. W. Barsalou, and M. Bucciarelli (Eds). Proceedings of the 27th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 577-582) . Stresa, Italy: Cognitive Science Society, Inc.

De Neys, W., Schaeken, W., & d’Ydewalle, G. (2005). Working memory and everyday conditional reasoning: Retrieval and inhibition of stored counterexamples. Thinking & Reasoning., 11, 4, 349-381

De Neys, W., Schaeken, W., & d’Ydewalle, G. (2005). Working memory and counterexample retrieval for causal conditionals. Thinking & Reasoning., 11, 2 123-150

Dieussaert, K., and Schaeken, W. (2005). Reasoning from inconsistency: a field exploration. Psychologica Belgica, 45 (1), 1-18.

Dieussaert, K., De Neys, W., and Schaeken, W. (2005). Belief revision and suppression: two sides of the same coin? Psychologica Belgica, 45 (1), 29-46.

Evans, J. St. B. T. (2005). The social and communicative function of conditionals. Mind and Society, 4, 97-114.

Evans, J. St. B. T., Over, D. E., and Handley, S. J. (2005). Supposition, extensionality and conditionals: A critique of Johnson-Laird and Byrne (2002). Psychological Review, 112, 1040-1052.

Gattis, M. (2005). Inferencing from spatial information. Spatial Cognition and Computation, 5, 119-137.

Goodwin, G., and Johnson-Laird, P.N. (2005) Reasoning about relations. Psychological Review, 112, 468-493.

Goodwin, G., and Johnson-Laird, P.N. (2005) Reasoning about the relations between relations. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Pyschology, 59, 1-23.

Johnson-Laird, P.N. (2005) Flying bicycles: How the Wright brothers invented the airplane.  Mind and Society, 4, 27-48.

Legrenzi, P. and Johnson-Laird, P.N. (2005). The evaluation of diagnostic explanations for inconsistencies. Psychologica Belgica, 45 (1), 19-28.

Lucas, E. J., & Ball, L. J. (2005). Think-aloud protocols and the selection task: Evidence for relevance effects and rationalization processes. Thinking and Reasoning, 11, 1, 35-66

Rauh, R., Hagen, C., Knauff, M., Kuss, T., Knauff, M., Kuss, T., Schlieder, C., and Strube, G. (2005). Preferred and alternative mental models in spatial reasoning. Spatial Cognition and Computation, 5(2and3), 239-269.

Schroyens, W. and Dieussaert, K. (2005). Issues in reasoning about iffy propositions: The secondary inference model of revising conditional beliefs and inferences. In B. G. Bara, L. W. Barsalou, and M. Bucciarelli (Eds).  Proceedings of the 27th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society  (pp. 2550) . Stresa, Italy: Cognitive Science Society, Inc.

Stupple, E. J. N., and Ball, L. J. (2005). An inspection-time analysis of figural effects and processing direction in syllogistic reasoning. In B. G. Bara, L. Barsalou, and M. Bucciarelli (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2092-2097). Alpha, NJ: Sheridan Printing.

Verschueren, N., Schaeken, W., & d'Ydewalle, G. (2005). Everyday conditional reasoning: A working-memory dependent trade-off between counterexample and likelihood use. Memory and Cognition, 33, 1, 107-119

Verschueren, N., Schaeken, W., & d'Ydewalle, G. (2005). A dual process specification of causal conditional reasoning. Thinking and Reasoning, 11, 3, 239-278

Verschueren, N., Schroyens, W., Schaeken, W., & d'Ydewalle, G. (2005) Necessity and sufficiency in abstract conditional reasoning. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology

2005 – Books and Book Chapters

Bacon, A.M., Handley, S.J. & Newstead, S.E. (2005). Verbal and spatial strategies in reasoning. In M. Roberts & E. Newton (Eds.). Methods of thought: Individual differences in reasoning strategies. Hove: Psychology Press.

Byrne, R.M.J. (2005). The Rational Imagination: How people create alternatives to reality. Cambridge, M.A.: MIT Press.

Byrne, R.M.J. & Walsh, C.R. (2005). Resolving contradictions. In Johnson-Laird, P.N. & Girotto, V. (Eds). The shape of reason: essays in honour of Paolo Legrenzi   Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum  Associates.

Byrne, R.M.J. (2005). The Rational Imagination: How People Create Alternatives to Reality. Cambridge, M.A.: MIT Press.

Byrne, R.M.J. (2005). Whether, although and other conditional connectives. In W. Schaeken (Ed). Mental Models. Hove: Psychology Press

Byrne, R.M.J. & Walsh, C.R. (2005). Resolving contradictions. In Johnson-Laird, P.N. & Girotto, V. (Eds). The Shape of Reason: Essays in Honour of Paolo Legrenzi   Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum  Associates.

Cowley, M. & Byrne, R.M.J. (2005). Chess masters' hypothesis testing. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah: Erlbaum.

De Neys, W., Schaeken, W., & díYdewalle, G. (2005). Inference suppression and working memory capacity: Inhibition of the disabler search. Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Girotto, V., and Johnson-Laird, P.N., Eds. (2005) The Shape of Reason:Essays in Honour of Paolo Legrenzi.  New York: Psychology Press.

Goel, V. (2005). Cognitive Neuroscience of Deductive Reasoning.  In Cambridge Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning, Eds. K. Holyoak and R. Morrison. Cambridge University Press.

Goodwin, G. P., and Johnson-Laird, P. N. (2005). Diagnosis of ambiguous faults in simple networks. In Bara, B.G., Barsalous, L.W., and Bucciarelli, M. (Eds.) Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. Pp. 791-796.

Jahn, G., Johnson-Laird, P. N., and Knauff, M. (2005). Reasoning about consistency with spatial mental models: Hidden and obvious indeterminacy in spatial descriptions. In C. Freksa, C,. Knauff,  M., Krieg-Brückner, B.,  Nebel, B., and T. Barkowsky, T. (Eds.) Spatial Cognition IV, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 3343 Berlin:Springer.  Pp. 165-180.

Johnson-Laird, P.N. (2005) The shape of problems.  In Girotto, V., and Johnson-Laird, P.N. (Eds.) The Shape of Reason: Essays in Honour of Paolo Legrenzi. NewYork: Psychology Press.  Pp. 3-26.

Johnson-Laird, P.N. (2005) Deductive reasoning.  In Ping, Li, and Chen, Xiang (Eds.) Cognitive Studies of Science and Reasoning, Vol. 2.  Beijing, China: Hang Xi People’s Press.  Pp. 409-449.  [Trans. of J-L, 1999]

Johnson-Laird, P.N. Mental models in thought.  (2005) In Holyoak, K. and Sternberg, R.J. (Eds.) The Cambridge Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.  Pp. 179-212.

Lee, N.Y.L., and Johnson-Laird, P.N. (2005) Synthetic reasoning and the reverse engineering of Boolean circuits. In Bara, B.G., Barsalous, L.W., and Bucciarelli, M. (Eds.)  Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.Pp. 1260-1265.

Verschueren, N., Schaeken, W., & d'Ydewalle, G. (2005). Everyday conditional reasoning with working memory preload. Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah: Erlbaum Ass.

Waechter, RL,and Goel,V. (2005).  Resolving Valid Multiple Model Inferences Activates a Left Hemisphere Network.  In C. Held, M. Knauff, and G. Vosgerau (Eds.), Mental Models and Cognitive Psychology, Neuroscience, and Philosophy of Mind. Elsevier

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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