1. L. K a r t t u n e n ( K a r t t u n e n 1970, 1971) demons t r a t ed t h a t i n E n g l i s h t h e r e e x i s t s i x c l a s s e s o f p r e d i c a t e s t h a t d i f f e r as f o r t h e r e l a t i o n s h i p s h o l d i n g be tween the p r e d i c a t e and i t s s e n t e n t i a l complement: f a c t i v e s , p o s i t i v e and n e g a t i v e two-way i m p l i o a t i v e s...

A considerable number of recent experimental and computational studies suggest that subtle impairments of excitatory to inhibitory balance or regulation are involved in many neurological and psychiatric conditions. The current paper aims to relate, specifically and quantitatively, excitatory to inhibitory imbalance with psychotic symptoms in schizophrenia. Considering that the brain constructs ...

A precise d e f i n i t i o n is g iven of a c lass of inferences in predicate log ic which it la proposed to I d e n t i f y w i t h the c lass of "obvious" In ferences. A mechanism fo r Implementing "obvious in ference" as a r u l e of Inference in proof checking systems is discussed.

Three studies examine the hypothesis that people spontaneously (i.e., unintentionally and without awareness of doing so) infer causes (the Spontaneous Causal Inference, or SCI, hypothesis). Using a cued-recall paradigm, Study 1 examines whether SCIs occur and Study 2 allows for a comparison between implicitly inferred and explicitly mentioned causes. Study 3 examines whether SCIs can be fully e...

One must know the sampling distribution of the estimator (the statistic used to estimate  I shall use   to stand for the statistic used to estimate  ) to make full use of the estimator. The sampling distribution of a statistic is the distribution that would be obtained if you repeatedly drew samples of a specified size from a specified population and computed   on each sample. In other wo...

Within this article, I explore how coproductions (expansions made by a second speaker upon a previous utterance) and questions regarding prior utterances work to verbalize inferences regarding the temporal information in spoken German conversation. While questions regarding prior utterances and coproductions are traditionally understood to have different communicative functions (signaling under...