Ruth Byrne
Professor of Cognitive Science, Psychology
Professor of Cognitive Science, Trinity Inst. of Neurosciences (TCIN)
Biography
Ruth Byrne is the Professor of Cognitive Science at Trinity College Dublin, University of Dublin, in the School of Psychology and the Institute of Neuroscience, a Chair created for her by the University in 2005. Her research expertise is in the cognitive science of human thinking, including experimental and computational investigations of reasoning and imaginative thought. Her books include 'The Rational Imagination: How People Create Alternatives to Reality' published in 2005 by MIT press and she has published over 100 articles in journals such as the Annual Review of Psychology, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Psychological Review, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Science, and Cognition. More information is available at http://reasoningandimagination.wordpress.com/. She is the former Vice Provost of Trinity College Dublin, University of Dublin, prior to that Head of the School of Psychology, and former Deputy Director of the Institute of Neuroscience. She is an Associate Editor for Memory and Cognition, journal of the US Psychonomic Society and she is the current Chair of the European Research Council's advanced grants panel on the Human Mind and its Complexity. Her BA degree was awarded by the National University of Ireland, University College Dublin and her PhD by the University of Dublin, Trinity College Dublin, and she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge. Prior to her appointment at Trinity College, she held lectureships in the computer science department at University College Dublin and in the psychology department at the University of Wales at Cardiff. She is a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin, the Association for Psychological Science, and a member of the Royal Irish Academy.
Publications and Further Research Outputs
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Parkinson, M. & Byrne, R.M.J. , Judgments of moral responsibility and wrongness for intentional and accidental harm and purity violations., Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology., 71, (3), 2018, p779 - 789
Khemlani, S., Byrne, R.M.J., & Johnson-Laird, P.N., Facts and possibilities: A model- based theory of sentential reasoning, Cognitive Science, 2018
Byrne, R.M.J. & Timmons, S., Moral hindsight for good actions and the effects of imagined alternatives to reality, Cognition, 178, 2018, p82 - 91
Counterfactual reasoning and imagination in, editor(s)L.J. Ball & V.A. Thompson , International Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning, London, Routledge, 2018, pp71 - 87, [Byrne, R.M.J.]
Moreno-Rios, S. & Byrne, R.M.J. , Inferences from disclosures about the truth and falsity of expert testimony, Thinking and Reasoning., 24, (1), 2018, p41 - 78
Timmons, S & Byrne, R.M.J., Moral Fatigue: The Effects of Cognitive Fatigue on Moral Reasoning, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 2018
Parkinson, M. & Byrne, R.M.J. , Counterfactual and semifactual thoughts in moral judgments about failed attempts to harm. , Thinking and Reasoning, 23, (4), 2017, p409 - 448
Parkinson, M. & Byrne, R.M.J. , Moral judgments of risky choices: a moral echoing effect, Judgment & Decision Making, 12, (3), 2017, p236 - 252
Byrne, R.M.J., Counterfactual thinking: From logic to morality, Current Directions in Psychological Science, 26, (4), 2017, p314 - 322
Rasga, C., Quelhas, A. C., & Byrne, R. M.J., How children with autism reason about other's intentions: false-belief and counterfactual inferences. , Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 47, (6), 2017, p1806 - 1817
Couto, C., Quelhas, A.C., & Byrne, R.M.J. , Advice conditionals about tips and warnings: interpretations and inferences. , Journal of Cognitive Psychology., 29, (3), 2017, p364 - 380
Byrne, R.M.J., Counterfactual Thought, Annual Review of Psychology, 67, 2016, p135 - 157
Counterfactual thinking in, editor(s)Kind, Amy , The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Imagination, London, Routledge, 2016, pp339 - 352, [Byrne, R.M.J.]
Rasga, C., Quelhas, A. C., & Byrne, R. M.J., Children's reasoning about other's intentions: False-belief and counterfactual conditional inferences., Cognitive Development, , 40, 2016, p46 - 59
Juhos, C., Quelhas, A.C. & Byrne, R.M.J. , Reasoning about intentions: Counterexamples to reasons for actions. , Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition. , 41, (1), 2015, p55 - 76
Mental models. in, editor(s)R. Scott & S. Kosslyn , Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences. , New Jersey, John Wiley & Sons., 2015, pp1 - 13, [Byrne, R.M.J.]
Gubbins, E., & Byrne, R. M.J., Dual processes of emotion and reason in judgments about moral dilemmas. , Thinking & Reasoning., 20, (2), 2014, p245 - 268
Intentionality and choice. in, editor(s)M. Knauff, M., Pauen, N., Sebanz, & I. Wachsmuth , Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society., Austin TX, Cognitive Science Society., 2013, pp1970 - 1975, [Ndubuisi, B. & Byrne, R.M.J.]
Espino, O., & Byrne, R. M. J., The compatibility heuristic in non-categorical hypothetical reasoning: Inferences between conditionals and disjunctions. , Cognitive Psychology., 67, (3), 2013, p98 - 129
Counterfactual reasoning in, editor(s)D.S. Dunn , Oxford Bibliographies in Psychology, New York, Oxford University Press, 2013, pponline - [Byrne, R.M.J. ]
The development of the rational imagination. in, editor(s)Barouillet, P. & Gauffroy, C. , The Development of Thinking., Hove UK, Psychology Press, 2013, pp34 - 48, [Meehan, J. & Byrne, R.M.J. ]
Murray, M.A. & Byrne, R.M.J. , Cognitive Change in Insight Problem-Solving: Initial Model Errors and Counterexamples., Journal of Cognitive Psychology. , 25, (2 ), 2013, p210 - 219
Frosch, C. & Byrne, R.M.J., Causal conditionals and counterfactuals, Acta Psychologica, 141 , (1 ), 2012, p54 - 66
Irish Journal of Psychology Special Issue: Celebrating fifty years of psychology at Trinity College Dublin, 33, 2-3, (2012), 1 - 156p, Byrne, R.M.J., Carson, R., & Hannigan, B., [eds.]
Espino, O. & Byrne, R.M.J., It is not the case that if you understand a conditional you know how to negate it, Journal of Cognitive Psychology , 24, (3), 2012, p329 - 334
Pereda, A., Garavan, H., & Byrne, R.M.J., Switching attention incurs a cost for counterfactual conditional inferences, Irish Journal of Psychology, 33, (2-3), 2012, p72 - 77
Johnson-Laird, P.N., Lotstein, M., & Byrne, R.M.J., The consistency of disjunctive assertions, Memory & Cognition, 40, 2012, p769 - 778
Egan, S. & Byrne, R.M.J., Inferences from counterfactual inducements, Experimental Psychology, 59, (4), 2012, 227 - 235
Pighin, S, Byrne, R.M.J., Ferrante, D., Gonzalez, M. & Girotto, V. , Counterfactual thoughts about experienced, observed, and narrated events., Thinking and reasoning , 17, (2), 2011, p197 - 211
'Counterfactual and causal thoughts about exceptional events' in, Hoerl, C., McCormack, T., & Beck, S.R. , Understanding counterfactuals and causality, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2011, pp208 - 229, [Byrne, R.M.J. ]
Dixon, J. & Byrne, R.M.J., Counterfactual thinking about exceptional actions, Memory & Cognition, 39, (7), 2011, p1317 - 1331
Byrne, R.M.J. & Johnson-Laird, P.N. , Models Redux: Response to Evans and Over, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 14, 2010, p6 - 6
McCloy, R.A., Byrne, R.M.J. & Johnson-Laird, P.N, Understanding cumulative risk, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 63, (3), 2010, p499 - 515
'Conditionals and Possibilities' in, Oaksford, M. and Chater, N. , Cognition and Conditionals: Probability and Logic in Human Thinking, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2010, pp55 - 68, [Byrne, R.M.J. & Johnson-Laird, P.N. ]
'Cognitive processes in counterfactual thinking' in, Markman, K., Klein, W. & Suhr, J. , Handbook of Imagination and Mental Simulation, Hove, Psychology Press, 2009, pp151 - 160, [Byrne, R.M.J. & Girotto, V.]
Johnson-Laird, P.N., Byrne, R.M.J., and Girotto, V., The Mental Model Theory of Conditionals: A Reply to Guy Politzer, Topoi - International Review of Philosophy, 28 , 2009, p75 - 80
'If only counterfactuals and the exceptionality effect' in, N.A. Taatgen & H. van Rijn , Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Austin, TX , Erlbaum, 2009, pp2860 - 2865, [Dixon, J. & Byrne, R.M.J.]
Espino, O., Santamaria, C. & Byrne, R.M.J., People think about what is true for conditionals, not what is false: only true possibilities prime the comprehension of "if", Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 62, 2009, p1072 - 1078
Byrne, R.M.J. & Johnson-Laird, P.N. , 'If' and the problems of conditional reasoning, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 13, 2009, p282 - 287
Egan, S., Garcia-Madruga, J. & Byrne, R.M.J., Indicative and counterfactual 'only if' conditionals, Acta Psychologica, 132, (3), 2009, p240-249
Moreno-Rios, S., Garcia-Madruga, J. & Byrne, R.M.J., Inferences from semifactual 'even if' conditionals, Acta Psychologica, 128, 2008, p197 - 209
Byrne, R.M.J., The rational imagination and other possibilities: Author's response, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 30, 2007, p470 - 480
'Whether, although and other conditional connectives' in, editor(s)W. Schaeken, Vandierendonck, A., Schroyens, W., and d'Ydewalle, G. , The Mental Models Theory of Reasoning: Refinements and Extensions, Mahwah: New Jersey, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2007, pp53 - 62, [Byrne, R.M.J.]
Walsh, C.R. & Byrne, R.M.J., The effects of reasons for acting on counterfactual thinking, Thinking and Reasoning, 13, 2007, p461 - 483
Byrne, R.M.J., Precis of The Rational Imagination: How People Create Alternatives to Reality, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 30, 2007, p439 - 453
McEleney, A. and Byrne, R.M.J. , Spontaneous causal and counterfactual thoughts. , Thinking and Reasoning., 12, (2), 2006, p235 - 255
Resolving contradictions in, editor(s)Girotto, V. and Johnson-Laird, P.N. , The shape of reason: essays in honour of Paolo Legrenzi, Mahwah, NJ, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2005, [Byrne, R.M.J. and Walsh, C.R.]
The mental representation of what might have been. in, editor(s)D.R. Mandel, D.J.Hilton, and P. Catellani (Eds.) , The Psychology of Counterfactual Thinking, London, Routledge, 2005, [Walsh, C.R. and Byrne, R.M.J.]
Byrne, R.M.J., The rational imagination: how people create alternatives to reality, Cambridge, M.A, MIT Press, 2005, 274pp
Santamaria, C., Espino, O. and Byrne, R.M.J., Counterfactual and semifactuals prime alternative possibilities., Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 31, (5), 2005, p1149 - 1154
Cowley, M. & Byrne, R.M.J., When falsification is the only path to truth, Proceedings of the 27th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 2005, edited by Bara, B.G., Barsalou, L. & Bucciarelli, M. , Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates , 2005, pp512 - 517
Meehan, J.E. & Byrne, R.M.J. , The Temporal Order Effect in Children's Counterfactual Thinking, Proceedings of the 27th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, edited by Bara, B.G., Barsalou, L. & Bucciarelli, M. , Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates , 2005, pp1467 - 1473
Cowley, M., Byrne, R. M. J., Chess Masters' Hypothesis Testing, Proceedings of the Twenty- Sixth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, edited by K. D. Forbus, D. Gentner, T. Rogers , Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 2004, pp250 - 255
Byrne, R.M.J. and Egan, S.M., Counterfactual and prefactual conditionals, Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 58, 2004, p113 - 120
Walsh CR, and Byrne RMJ, Counterfactual thinking: the temporal order effect, Memory and Cognition, 32 , (3), 2004, p369 - 378
Quelhas AC and Byrne RMJ , Reasoning with deontic and counterfactual conditionals, Thinking & Reasoning, 9 (1), (Feb), 2003, p43 - 65
Segura, S. & Byrne, R.M.J., Temporal and Causal Order Effects in Thinking about What Might Have Been, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 55, 2002, p1295 - 1305
Byrne, R.M.J., Walsh, C.R., Contradictions and counterfactuals: Generating belief revisions in conditional inference, Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society edited by W. Gray and C. Schunn, Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2002, pp160 - 165
Thompson, V.A. & Byrne, R.M.J., Reasoning counterfactually: Making inferences about things that didn't happen, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 28, 2002, p1154 - 1170
McCloy, R. & Byrne, R.M.J., Semifactual 'even if' thinking, Thinking and Reasoning, 8, 2002, p41 - 67
Byrne, R.M.J., Mental models and counterfactual thoughts about what might have been, Trends in cognitive sciences, 6, 2002, p426 - 431
Johnson-Laird, P.N. & Byrne, R.M.J, Conditionals: A theory of meaning, pragmatics and inference, Psychological Review, 109, 2002, p646 - 678
Supresion de inferencias en condicionales in, editor(s)Fernandez Berrocal, P. and Santamaria, C. , Manual practico de psicologia del pensamiento, Barcelona, Ariel, 2001, pp37 - 49, [Espino, O. Santamaria, C., Byrne, R.M.J.]
Walsh, C.R., Byrne, R.M.J., A computational model of counterfactual thinking: The temporal order effect, Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, edited by J.D. Moore, K. Stenning , Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2001, pp1078 - 1083
Johnson-Laird, P.N. & Byrne, R.M.J, Mental models and pragmatics: Author's response, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 23, 2000, p284 - 286
McCloy, R. A. & Byrne, R.M.J. , Counterfactual thinking about controllable events, Memory & Cognition, 28, 2000, p1071 - 1078
Temporal and causal relations in counterfactual thinking in, editor(s)J. A. Garcia Madruga , Mental models and reasoning, Madrid, UNED, 2000, pp327 - 336, [Segura, S., Berrocal, P., Byrne, R.M.J.]
Byrne, R.M.J., Quelhas, C., Raciocinio contrafactual e modelos mentais, Analise Psicologia, 2000, p713 - 721
Effetto dell'azione nel pensiero controfattuale: una teoria basata sui modelli mentali in, editor(s)Cherubini, P., Giaretta, Pierdaniele, Mazzocco, A. , Ragionamento: Psicologia e logica, Firenze, Giunti, 2000, pp283 - 291, [Byrne, R.M.J., and McEleney, A.]
Byrne,R.M.J., Segura, S., Culhane, R., Tasso, A. & Berrocal, P., The temporality effect in counterfactual thinking about what might have been, Memory & Cognition, 28, 2000, p264 - 281
Byrne, R.M.J. & McEleney, A. , Counterfactual thinking about actions and failures to act, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 26, 2000, p1318 - 1331
Counterfactual thinking and causal explanation in, editor(s)García-Madruga, J., Carriedo, N., González-Labra, M. J , Mental Models in Reasoning, Madrid, UNED, 2000, pp301 - 314, [McEleney, A., Byrne, R. M. J.]
Latencies to understand and reasoning from counterfactual conditionals in, editor(s)J. A. Garcia Madruga , Mental models and reasoning, Madrid, UNED, 2000, pp315 - 326, [Quelhas, C., Byrne, R.M.J.]
Byrne, R.M.J., Espino, O. & Santamaria, C. , Counterexamples and the suppression of inferences, Journal of Memory & Language, 40, 1999, p347 - 373
Johnson-Laird, P.N. & Byrne, R.M.J, Mental models rule ok? A reply to Fetzer, Minds and machines, 9, 1999, p111 - 117
McEleney, A., Byrne, R. M. J., Consequences of counterfactual reasoning and causal reasoning, European Conference on Cognitive Science '99, Siena, Italy:University of Siena, edited by Bagnara, S. , 1999, pp199 - 205
McCloy, R., Byrne, R.M.J., Thinking about what might have been: if only, even if, causality and emotions, Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, edited by N. Hahn, S.C. Stoness , Hillsdale: Erlbaum, 1999
Byrne, R.M.J., Tasso, A., Deductive reasoning with factual, possible and counterfactual conditionals, Memory & Cognition, 27, 1999, p726 - 740
Counterexample availability in, editor(s)W. Schaeken, G. De Vooght, A. Vandierendonck, G. d'Ydewalle , Deductive reasoning and strategiess, Hillsdale, Erlbaum, 1999, pp97 - 110, [Byrne, R.M.J., Espino, O., Santamaria, C.]
Razonamiento contrafactual: la posición serial y el número de antecedentes en los pensamientos sobre lo que podría haber sido in, editor(s)D. Valiña, M. J. Blanco , I Jornadas de Psicologia del Pensamiento, Santiago de Compostela, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, 1998, pp179 - 187, [Segura, S., Fernandez-Berrocal, P., Byrne, R. M. J.]
Byrne, R.M.J., Spatial mental models in counterfactual thinking about what might have been, Kognitionswissenschaft, 7, 1998, p19 - 26
Byrne, R.M.J., Espino, O. & Santamaria, C., Context suppresses inferences, Analise Psicologica, 1998, p210 - 214
Byrne, R.M.J., Tasso, A. and Thompson, V., Cognitive processes in Counterfactual Conditionals, Cognition, Agency, and Rationality: Proceedings of the Fifth International Colloquium on Cognitive Science, edited by K. Korta, E. Sosa and X. Arrazola , Nertherlands: Kluwer, 1998, pp113 - 129
Thinking about what might have been different and what might have been the same in, editor(s)J. Dunnion, G. O'Hare, S., O'Nuaillain, R. Reilly, B. Smyth , AI and Cognitive Science '98, London, Springer-Verlag, 1998, [McCloy, R.A., Byrne, R.M.J.]
Counterfactual thinking and causal explanation in, editor(s)J. Dunnion, G. O'Hare, S. O'Nuaillain, R. Reilly, B. Smyth , AI and Cognitive Science '98, London, Springer-Verlag, 1998, [McEleney, A., Byrne, R.M.J.]
Byrne, R.M.J. & Handley, S., Reasoning Strategies for Suppositional Deductions, Cognition, 62, 1997, p1 - 49
The coming of age of the psychology of thinking and reasoning in, editor(s)R. Fuller, P. Noonan Walsh, P. McGinley , A Century of Psychology, London, Routledge, 1997, pp207 - 223, [Byrne, R.M.J.]
Byrne, R.M.J. and McEleney, A., Cognitive processes in regret for actions and inactions, Proceedings of the 19th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society edited by M. Shafto and P. Langley, Hillsdale: Erlbaum, 1997, pp73 - 78
Byrne, R.M.J., Cognitive processes in counterfactual thinking about what might have been, The Psychology of Learning and Motivation, Advances in Research and Theory, 37, 1997, p105 - 154
Johnson-Laird, P.N., and Byrne, R.M.J., Mental models and syllogisms, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 19, 1996, p543 - 546
Towards a model theory of imaginary thinking in, editor(s)J. Oakhill and A.Garnham , Mental Models in Cognitive Science: Essays in honour of Phil Johnson-Laird, Hove, UK, Erlbaum, Taylor & Francis, 1996, pp155 - 174, [Byrne, R.M.J.]
Johnson-Laird, P.N., and Byrne, R.M.J., A model point of view, Thinking and Reasoning, 1, 1995, p339 - 350
Byrne, R.M.J., Handley, S.J., and Johnson-Laird, P.N. , Reasoning with suppositions, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology., 48, 1995, p915 - 944
Byrne, R.M.J., Culhane, R., and Tasso, A., The temporality effect in thinking about what might have been, Proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society edited by J.D. Moore and J.F. Lehman, Hillsdale: Erlbaum, 1995, pp385 - 390
Schaeken, W., Johnson-Laird, P.N., Byrne, R.M.J., d'Ydewalle, G., A comparison of conditional and disjunctive inferences: a case study of the mental model theory of reasoning., Psychologica Belgica., 35, 1995, p57 - 70
Keane, M.T., Cunningham, P., Brady, M. and Byrne, R.M.J. , AICS'94. Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, Dublin, Dublin University Press, 1994, 246pp
Encyclopedia of Intelligence, R.J. Sternberg, Deductive reasoning, New York, MacMillan, 1994, [Byrne, R.M.J.]
Johnson-Laird, P.N., and Byrne, R.M.J., Models, necessity, and the search for counterexamples, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 17, 1994, p775 - 777
Johnson-Laird, P.N., Byrne, R.M.J., and Schaeken, W., Why models rather than rules give a better account of propositional reasoning: a reply to Bonatti, and to O'Brien, Braine, and Yang, Psychological Review, 101, 1994, p734 - 739
Byrne, R.M.J. and Tasso, A., Counterfactual Reasoning: Inferences from hypothetical conditionals, Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, edited by Ram, A. and Eiselt, K. , Hillsdale: Erlbaum, 1994, pp124 - 129
Who's telling the truth...Cognitive processes in meta-deductions in, editor(s)H. Sorenson , AI and Cognitive Science '91, London, Springer-Verlag, 1993, pp221 - 233, [Byrne, R.M.J., Johnson-Laird, P.N., and Handley, S.]
Evans, J.St.B.T., Newstead, S. and Byrne, R.M.J., Human Reasoning: The Psychology of Deduction, Hove UK, Hillsdale, NJ:Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1993, 310pp
Johnson-Laird, P.N. and Byrne, R.M.J. , Precis of Deduction, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 16, 1993, p323 - 333
Models and deductive rationality in, editor(s)Manktelow, K.I. and Over, D.E. , Rationality: Psychological and philosophical perspectives, London, Routledge, 1993, pp177 - 210, [Johnson-Laird, P.N. and Byrne, R.M.J.]
Johnson-Laird, P.N. and Byrne, R.M.J. , Mental models or formal rules? , Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 16, 1993, p368 - 380
The nature and development of meta-deductive reasoning strategies in, editor(s)K. Ryan and R.F.E. Sutcliffe , AI and Cognitive Science '92, London, Springer-Verlag, 1993, pp59 - 70, [Byrne, R.M.J., and Handley, S.]
Byrne, R.M.J. and Johnson-Laird, P.N. , The spontaneous use of propositional connectives. , Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, , 45, 1992, p89 - 110
Advances in the Psychology of Reasoning: Meta-deduction in, editor(s)Keane, M. T. and Gilhooly, K. , Advances in the Psychology of Thinking, Vol. 1, London, Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1992, pp127 - 145, [Byrne, R.M.J., Handley, S., and Johnson-Laird, P.N.]
Byrne, R.M.J. and Handley, S.J. , Reasoning Strategies., Irish Journal of Psychology: Trinity 400 Special Issue, 13, 1992, p111 - 124
Johnson-Laird, P.N. and Byrne, R.M.J., Modal reasoning, models, and Manktelow and Over, Cognition, 43, 1992, p173 - 182
Johnson-Laird, P.N., Byrne, R.M.J., and Tabossi, P., In defense of reasoning: A reply to Greene, Psychological Review, 99, 1992, p188 - 190
Johnson-Laird, P.N., Byrne, R.M.J. & Schaeken, W. , Propositional reasoning by model, Psychological Review, 99, 1992, p418 - 439
The model theory of deduction in, editor(s)Rogers, Y, Rutherford, A. and Bibby, P. , Models in the Mind: Theory, Perspective, and Applications, London, Academic, 1992, pp11 - 28, [Byrne, R.M.J.]
Byrne, R.M.J., Can valid inferences be suppressed?, Cognition, 39, 1991, p71 - 78
Johnson-Laird, P.N. and Byrne, R.M.J., Deduction, Hillsdale NJ & Hove UK, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1991, 243pp
Johnson-Laird, P.N. & Byrne, R.M.J, Mental models in deductive reasoning, Revista de Occidente, 1991, p85 - 111
The construction of explanations in, editor(s)McTear, M.and Creaney, N. , AI and Cognitive Science '90, London, Springer-Verlag, 1991, [Byrne, R.M.J.]
Models and deductive reasoning in, editor(s)Gilhooly, K.J., Keane, M.T.G, Logie, R.H., Erdos, G. , Lines of Thinking: Reflections on the Psychology of Thought. Volume 1: Representation, Reasoning, Analogy and Decision Making, London, Wiley, 1990, pp139 - 152, [Byrne, R.M.J. and Johnson-Laird, P.N.]
Johnson-Laird, P.N., Byrne, R.M.J., Mental models, Proceedings of the IFIP WG 5.2 Second Workshop on CAD edited by H. Yoshikawa and T. Holden, CAD, Cambridge, 1990, pp3 - 15
Mental models, Eysenck, M., Dictionary of Cognitive Psychology, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1990, [Byrne, R.M.J.]
Johnson-Laird, P.N. & Byrne, R.M.J. , Meta-logical problems: knights, knaves, and Rips., Cognition., 36 (1), (JUL ), 1990, p69 - 84
Remembering conclusions we have inferred: what biases reveal in, editor(s)J.-P. Caverni, J.-M. Fabre, M. Gonzalez , Cognitive Biases: Their Contribution for Understanding Human Cognitive Processes, Amsterdam, North-Holland, 1990, pp109 - 120, [Byrne, R.M.J., Johnson-Laird, P.N.]
Johnson-Laird, P.N. and Byrne, R.M.J. , Only reasoning, Journal of Memory and Language, 28 (3), (JUN), 1989, p313 - 330
Johnson-Laird, P.N., Byrne, R.M.J., and Tabossi, P. , Reasoning by model: the case of multiple quantification, Psychological Review, 96 (4), (OCT), 1989, p658 - 673
Byrne, R.M.J. and Johnson-Laird, P.N. , Spatial reasoning, Journal of Memory and Language, 28 , (5), 1989, p564 - 575
Byrne, R.M.J. and Keane, M.T.G., Cognitive science: an introduction, Irish Journal of Psychology, 10, (2), 1989, pR1 - R6
Byrne, R.M.J. , Everyday reasoning with conditional sequences, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, , 41 (1), (FEB), 1989, p141 - 166
Byrne, R.M.J. , Suppressing valid inferences with conditionals. , Cognition , 31 , (1), 1989, p61 - 83
Byrne, R.M.J., Human deductive reasoning., Irish Journal of Psychology, 10, (2), 1989, p216 - 231
Cognitive Science: A Special Issue of the Irish Journal of Psychology, (1989), 352p, Byrne, R.M.J. and Keane, M.T.G., [eds.]