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Reasoning Beyond the Mental World

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Computational Autism

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Having considered autistic reasoning about the mental world, we now focus on other reasoning domains: probabilistic and counterfactual, adjustment of actions, and its nonmonotonic features. Default reasoning of children with autism handling conflicting rules is also explored.

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Galitsky, B. (2016). Reasoning Beyond the Mental World. In: Computational Autism. Human–Computer Interaction Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39972-0_6

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