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Ninth Bartlett Memorial lecture. Thinking as a skill

P. N. Johnson-Laird Centre for Research on Perception and Cognition, Laboratory of Experimental Psychology, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QG, England
Pages 1-29 | Received 01 Oct 1981, Published online: 29 May 2007

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