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The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A
Human Experimental Psychology
Volume 46, 1993 - Issue 4: The Cognitive Psychology of Reasoning
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Naming the parents of the THOG: Mental representation and reasoning

Vittorio Girotto University of Trieste, Italy
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Paolo Legrenzi CREA Ecole Polytechnique, France
Pages 701-713 | Received 12 Jun 1993, Published online: 29 May 2007

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