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Irresistibly Logical: Automatic Logical Inferences in Visual Scene Processing

2026-07-15

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<p>The human capacity for logical thought underpins pivotal scientific and technological achievements, yet it also pervades everyday intuitive reasoning. Previous work shows that basic disjunctive inference is deployed by infants to infer a hidden object's identity. Here, in five experiments, we ask whether this developmentally primitive logical operation arises automatically and irresistibly while adults process...

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Literature Corpus work: 4e23005b-9391-5ad2-a828-762651e9e1b9
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/w9deg_v2

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