Inferences from semifactual 'even if'conditionals

S Moreno-Rios, JA Garcia-Madruga, RMJ Byrne - Acta Psychologica, 2008 - Elsevier
We report three experiments on semifactual conditionals such as 'even if he had worn his
seatbelt he would have been injured'. Semifactuals contain a counterfactual antecedent (the …

Indicative and counterfactual 'only if'conditionals

SM Egan, JA García-Madruga, RMJ Byrne - Acta psychologica, 2009 - Elsevier
We report three experiments to test the possibilities reasoners think about when they
understand a conditional of the form 'A only if B'compared to 'if A then B'. The experiments …

The interpretation of indicative and subjunctive concessives

I Gómez-Veiga, JA García-Madruga, S Moreno-Ríos - Acta psychologica, 2010 - Elsevier
Using a priming paradigm in the context of a reading comprehension task, the possibilities
that people keep in mind in order to understand indicative and subjunctive concessive …

Working memory, text comprehension, and propositional reasoning: A new semantic anaphora WM test

N Carriedo, MR Elosúa… - The Spanish journal of …, 2011 - cambridge.org
The aim of this study was to present a new working memory test following the line of work
started by García-Madruga et al.(2007) and to examine its relation to reading …

Unless conditionals: New evidence from priming

I Gomez-Veiga, JA García-Madruga… - Journal of Cognitive …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Using a priming paradigm, the possibilities that people keep in mind in order to understand
“unless A, B” were compared to those from “if A, not-B” conditionals. The length of time it took …

The influence of verbal mood in exceptive conditional reasoning: Indicative versus subjunctive

O Espino, R Rodríguez, D Oliva, IS Curbelo - Psicothema, 2015 - reunido.uniovi.es
La influencia del modo verbal en el razonamiento de condicionales exceptivos: indicativo
frente a subjuntivo. Antecedentes: se presentan dos experimentos que examinan la …

[PDF][PDF] Reasoning withUnless´ counterfactual conditionals

JA García-Madruga, S Moreno-Rios, AC Quelhas… - Psicológica, 2009 - redalyc.org
This article tackles factual and counterfactual 'unless' expressions such as 'Virginia will not
pass the exam unless she works harder'and 'Virginia would not have passed the exam …

Priming effect on the exceptive conditional 'except if'

O Espino, I Sánchez-Curbelo, O García… - Journal of Cognitive …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Here we report the results of one priming experiment that examines the comprehension of
exceptive conditionals—for example,'Mary will go out tonight except if she has an exam …

Priming effect in affirmative complex conditional connectives

O Espino, B Villar - Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
We report the results of an experiment that examined the mental representations underlying
the comprehension of complex conditional connectives (such as “A, on condition that B”) …

The semantics of 'unless' conditionals: Evidence from 'unless' and disjunctive inferences

JA García-Madruga, N Carriedo… - The Spanish Journal of …, 2011 - cambridge.org
We report the results of an experiment investigating conditional inferences from conditional
assertions such as 'Juan won't go to León unless Nuria goes to Madrid'and 'Either Nuria …