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Updating and reasoning: Different processes, different models, different functions.

Laura KellyJanani PrabhakarSangeet S Khemlani
Published in: The Behavioral and brain sciences (2019)
Two issues should be addressed to refine and extend the distinction between temporal updating and reasoning advocated by Hoerl & McCormack. First, do the mental representations constructed during updating differ from those used for reasoning? Second, are updating and reasoning the only two processes relevant to temporal thinking? If not, is a dual-systems framework sensible? We address both issues below.
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