What is it about?
Negation is everywhere, which includes our minds. The meaning and use of negation in logic and mathematics seems to be quite clear, but the psychology of negation is extremely complex. A recent theory of negation derived from the classic Mental Models Theory has recentrly provided a simple approach to this complex problem. That is, to negate means to represent a set of possibilities and then to generate complementary sets to such previous set. This elegant postulate has been tested in this paper. We studied the temporal course of negation for the particular case of conjunctions and disjunctions. The evidence strongly supports the mental models theory when compared to alternative accounts.
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Why is it important?
This contribution brings novel chronometrical evidence concerned with negation. A sound theory of human thinking requieres temporal course evidence, which is provided by our paper for these particular processes of compound negation.
Perspectives
This contribution brings chronometrical support to a sound account of negation in the human mind. In previous works, my research group and I worked on the representational asects of these processes. In this case, we focused on it temporal course of compound negation.
guillermo macbeth
National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET)
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This page is a summary of: Chronometrical Evidence Supports the Model Theory of Negation, SAGE Open, April 2017, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/2158244017716216.
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