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Fernanda Ferreira1, Falk Huettig2
1Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA fferreira@ucdavis.edu; https://ferreiralab.faculty.ucdavis.edu/.
Abstract:
Our understanding of dual-process models of cognition may benefit from a consideration of language processing, as language comprehension involves fast and slow processes analogous to those used for reasoning. More specifically, De Neys's criticisms of the exclusivity assumption and the fast-to-slow switch mechanism are consistent with findings from the literature on the construction and revision of linguistic interpretations.
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