Sherlock Holmes, the fictional sleuth who famously resides on Baker Street, is known for his impressive powers of logical reasoning. With a quick visual sweep of a crime scene, he generates hypotheses ...

In this study, I examined adults' ability to distinguish necessary deductive and indeterminate inductive forms of argument in mathematics. Only 30% of a sample of college students distinguished ...

Aging-US published "Applying deductive reasoning and the principles of particle physics to aging research" which reported that aging research currently lacks a common conceptual framework, and one ...

Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Vol. 38, No. 2, SPECIAL ISSUE: Cognitive Perspectives on Difficulty and Complexity in SLA (June 2016), pp. 265-291 (27 pages) Meta-analytic research suggests an ...

Event-related potentials (ERPs) provide a window into the temporal dynamics of brain activity during inductive reasoning and categorisation tasks. By recording rapid fluctuations in electrical brain ...