Abstract Prior psychological work on Gricean implicature has revealed much about how listeners infer (comprehension) but little about how speakers imply (production). This is surprising given the inherent link between the two. This study aimed to obtain a more integral understanding of implicatures by investigating the processes that are shared between inference and implication. In […]

An important challenge in segmenting real-world biomedical imaging data is the presence of multiple disease processes within individual subjects. Most adults above age 60 exhibit a variable degree of small vessel ischemic disease, as well as chronic infarcts, which will manifest as white matter hyperintensities (WMH) on brain MRIs. Subjects diagnosed with gliomas will also […]

As philosophers, linguists, and psychologists have long recognized, representing possibilities is central to mental life. Modal concepts (possible, necessary, impossible) are fundamental to moral reasoning (e.g., in distinctions between permissible, impermissible, and obligatory) and in formal mathematics and logic (e.g., where deductive necessity is the relation between axiomatic primitives and the conclusions licensed by derivational […]