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We discuss a research program on reasoning patterns in subjects with autism, showing that they fail to engage in certain forms of non-monotonic reasoning that come naturally to neurotypical subjects. The striking reasoning patterns of autists occur both in verbal and in non-verbal tasks. Upon formalising the relevant non-verbal tasks, one sees that their logical form is the same as that of the verbal tasks. This suggests that logical form can play a causal role in cognitive processes, and we suggest that this logical form is actually embodied in the cognitive capacity called ’executive function’.
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van Lambalgen, M. (2010). Logical Form as a Determinant of Cognitive Processes. In: Dawar, A., de Queiroz, R. (eds) Logic, Language, Information and Computation. WoLLIC 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6188. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13824-9_7
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