Relevance theory explains the selection task.
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By devising appropriate rule-context pairs, this work predicts that correct performance can be elicited in any conceptual domain and corroborates this prediction with four experiments.About:
This article is published in Cognition.The article was published on 1995-10-01 and is currently open access. It has received 492 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Wason selection task & Task analysis.read more
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