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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Linguistics
  • Philosophy of Mind

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  • Negative exceptive conditionals are complex logical structures.
  • The role of mood (subjunctive vs. indicative) in comprehending these conditionals is not fully understood.
  • Investigating mental representations offers insight into reasoning processes.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine the mental representations activated during the comprehension of negative exceptive conditionals.
  • To compare the effects of subjunctive and indicative moods on accessing possible scenarios.
  • To test implications for theories of logical reasoning.

Main Methods:

  • Three experiments were conducted using a priming methodology.
  • Participants' reading times for different logical possibilities were measured.
  • Exceptive conditionals in both subjunctive and indicative moods were used as primes.

Main Results:

  • The subjunctive mood primed the true possibility 'not-B & A' significantly faster than the indicative mood.
  • Other logical possibilities ('B & A', 'B & not-A', 'not-B & not-A') were primed equally by both moods.
  • Subjunctive mood comprehension accessed 'not-B & A' and 'B & not-A', while indicative mood accessed 'B & not-A' but not 'not-B & A'.

Conclusions:

  • Mental representations differ based on the mood of negative exceptive conditionals.
  • Subjunctive mood facilitates access to a broader range of possibilities, including the counterfactual.
  • Findings challenge existing theories of conditional reasoning and mental models.