Professor 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 most recent book is a co-edited volume with Kinga Morsanyi on 'Thinking, Reasoning, and Decision-making in Autism' (2019, Routledge). She has also written 'The Rational Imagination: How People Create Alternatives to Reality' published in 2005 by MIT press (and selected for open peer commentary by the Behavioral and Brain Sciences journal in 2007), and 'Deduction', co-authored with Phil Johnson-Laird, published in 1991 by Erlbaum Associates (selected for open peer commentary by the Behavioral and Brain Sciences journal in 1993). She has published over 100 articles in journals such as Annual Review of Psychology, Cognition, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Science, Current Directions in Psychological Science, Psychological Review, and Trends in Cognitive Sciences.
She is the former Vice Provost of Trinity College Dublin, University of Dublin, the 68th Vice Provost since the University was established in 1592 (the first was Henry Ussher in 1594) and the second woman to be appointed to the role. Prior to that she was the Head of the School of Psychology and former Deputy Director of the Institute of Neuroscience. Her current contributions to the discipline include serving as Senior Editor for Cognitive Science, journal of the US Cognitive Science Society, and as Chair of the European Research Council's advanced grants panel on the Human Mind and its Complexity. Her current service in Trinity includes serving as chair of the Faculty Promotions Committee for Science, Engineering and Mathematics, member of the Senior Academic Promotions Committee, and member of the Board of the Institute of Neuroscience.
She currently teaches a foundation module on Thinking to first and second year undergraduates, and two advanced modules, one on Human Reasoning and the other on Creative Cognition, to third and fourth year undergraduates. She supervises final year project students and postgraduate students carrying out research on thinking, reasoning, and imagination.
Her BA degree was awarded by the National University of Ireland, University College Dublin in 1983 and she completed her PhD at the University of Dublin, Trinity College Dublin in 1986. She subsequently 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 member of the Royal Irish Academy, a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin, and a Fellow of the US Association for Psychological Science.
Publications and Further Research Outputs
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Espino, O., & Byrne, R. M. J., The suppression of inferences from counterfactual conditionals. , Cognitive Science, 44 , (4), 2020
How do individuals with autism think? in, editor(s)Morsanyi, K. & Byrne, R.M.J. , Thinking, reasoning, and decision-making in autism. , London, Routledge, 2020, pp1 - 12, [Morsanyi, K. & Byrne, R.M.J. ]
Counterfactual and false-belief reasoning in individuals with autism. in, editor(s)K. Morsanyi & R.M.J. Byrne , Thinking, reasoning, and decision-making in autism., London, Routledge, 2020, pp88 - 112, [Rasga, C., Quelhas, A.C. & Byrne, R.M.J.]
Byrne, R.M.J. & Johnson-Laird, P.N., If and or: real and counterfactual possibilities in their truth and probability, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 46, (4), 2020, p760 - 780
Espino, O., Byrne, R. M. J. & Johnson-Laird, P.N. , Possibilities and the parallel meanings of factual and counterfactual conditionals., Memory & Cognition, 2020
The Counterfactual Imagination: The Impact of Alternatives to Reality on Morality in, editor(s)A. Abraham , Cambridge Handbook of the Imagination, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2020, pp529 - 547, [Byrne, R.M.J.]
Morsanyi, K. & Byrne, R.M.J. , Thinking, reasoning, and decision-making in autism., 1, London, Routledge, 2020, 1 - 162pp
Espino, O., & Byrne, R. M. J., How people keep track of what is real and what is imagined: the epistemic status of counterfactual alternatives to reality, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. , 2020
Timmons, S & Byrne, R.M.J., Moral Fatigue: The Effects of Cognitive Fatigue on Moral Reasoning, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 72 , (4), 2019, p943 - 954
Orenes, I., García Madruga, J.A.,Gómez-Veiga, I., Espino, O. & Byrne, R.M.J. , The comprehension of counterfactual conditionals: evidence from eye-tracking in the visual world paradigm. , Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 2019, p1172-
Byrne, R.M.J., Counterfactuals in explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI): Evidence from Human Reasoning, Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2019, p6276 - 6282
Timmons, S., Gubbins, E., Almeida, T. & Byrne, R.M.J. , Imagined alternatives to episodic memories of morally good acts., Journal of Positive Psychology. , 2019
Byrne, R.M.J. & Timmons, S., Moral hindsight for good actions and the effects of imagined alternatives to reality, Cognition, 178, 2018, p82 - 91
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
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
Khemlani, S., Byrne, R.M.J., & Johnson-Laird, P.N., Facts and possibilities: A model- based theory of sentential reasoning, Cognitive Science, 42, (6), 2018, p1887 - 1924
Espino, O. & Byrne, R.M.J. , Thinking about the opposite of what is said: counterfactual conditionals and symbolic or alternate simulations of negation, Cognitive Science, 42, (8), 2018, p2459 - 2501
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.]
Counterfactual reasoning in, editor(s)D.S. Dunn , Oxford Bibliographies in Psychology, New York, Oxford University Press, 2013, pponline - [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
Frosch, C. & Byrne, R.M.J., Causal conditionals and counterfactuals, Acta Psychologica, 141 , (1 ), 2012, p54 - 66
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
Egan, S. & Byrne, R.M.J., Inferences from counterfactual inducements, Experimental Psychology, 59, (4), 2012, 227 - 235
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.]
Johnson-Laird, P.N., Lotstein, M., & Byrne, R.M.J., The consistency of disjunctive assertions, Memory & Cognition, 40, 2012, p769 - 778
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
'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
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
Byrne, R.M.J. & Johnson-Laird, P.N. , Models Redux: Response to Evans and Over, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 14, 2010, p6 - 6
'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. ]
McCloy, R.A., Byrne, R.M.J. & Johnson-Laird, P.N, Understanding cumulative risk, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 63, (3), 2010, p499 - 515
'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.]
'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.]
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
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
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
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
Walsh, C.R. & Byrne, R.M.J., The effects of reasons for acting on counterfactual thinking, Thinking and Reasoning, 13, 2007, p461 - 483
'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.]
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
Byrne, R.M.J., The rational imagination: how people create alternatives to reality, Cambridge, M.A, MIT Press, 2005, 274pp
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
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
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.]
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.]
Walsh CR, and Byrne RMJ, Counterfactual thinking: the temporal order effect, Memory and Cognition, 32 , (3), 2004, p369 - 378
Byrne, R.M.J. and Egan, S.M., Counterfactual and prefactual conditionals, Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 58, 2004, p113 - 120
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
Quelhas AC and Byrne RMJ , Reasoning with deontic and counterfactual conditionals, Thinking & Reasoning, 9 (1), (Feb), 2003, p43 - 65
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
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
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
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
Johnson-Laird, P.N. & Byrne, R.M.J, Mental models and pragmatics: Author's response, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 23, 2000, p284 - 286
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.]
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.]
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., Quelhas, C., Raciocinio contrafactual e modelos mentais, Analise Psicologia, 2000, p713 - 721
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.]
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
McCloy, R. A. & Byrne, R.M.J. , Counterfactual thinking about controllable events, Memory & Cognition, 28, 2000, p1071 - 1078
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
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
Byrne, R.M.J., Espino, O. & Santamaria, C. , Counterexamples and the suppression of inferences, Journal of Memory & Language, 40, 1999, p347 - 373
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.]
Johnson-Laird, P.N. & Byrne, R.M.J, Mental models rule ok? A reply to Fetzer, Minds and machines, 9, 1999, p111 - 117
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., Spatial mental models in counterfactual thinking about what might have been, Kognitionswissenschaft, 7, 1998, p19 - 26
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.]
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., Espino, O. & Santamaria, C., Context suppresses inferences, Analise Psicologica, 1998, p210 - 214
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
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. & 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.]
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
Encyclopedia of Intelligence, R.J. Sternberg, Deductive reasoning, New York, MacMillan, 1994, [Byrne, R.M.J.]
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
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
Johnson-Laird, P.N., and Byrne, R.M.J., Models, necessity, and the search for counterexamples, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 17, 1994, p775 - 777
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.]
Johnson-Laird, P.N. and Byrne, R.M.J. , Mental models or formal rules? , Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 16, 1993, p368 - 380
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
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.]
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.]
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. and Johnson-Laird, P.N. , The spontaneous use of propositional connectives. , Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, , 45, 1992, p89 - 110
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., Byrne, R.M.J., and Tabossi, P., In defense of reasoning: A reply to Greene, Psychological Review, 99, 1992, p188 - 190
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.]
Johnson-Laird, P.N., Byrne, R.M.J. & Schaeken, W. , Propositional reasoning by model, Psychological Review, 99, 1992, p418 - 439
Johnson-Laird, P.N. and Byrne, R.M.J., Modal reasoning, models, and Manktelow and Over, Cognition, 43, 1992, p173 - 182
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.]
Byrne, R.M.J., Can valid inferences be suppressed?, Cognition, 39, 1991, p71 - 78
Johnson-Laird, P.N. & Byrne, R.M.J, Mental models in deductive reasoning, Revista de Occidente, 1991, p85 - 111
Johnson-Laird, P.N. and Byrne, R.M.J., Deduction, Hillsdale NJ & Hove UK, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1991, 243pp
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