Author Archives: Ruth Byrne

COUNTERFACTUAL THINKING SYMPOSIUM, QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY BELFAST Alice Ping Ping Tse and Ruth Byrne attended the Counterfactual Thinking Symposium on October 24th 2013 at Queen’s University, Belfast: Ruth Byrne (Trinity College Dublin) Counterfactual thinking and intentions Eimear O’Connor (Queen’s University Belfast)  … Continue reading →

Cristina Quelhas presented a talk ‘Conditional reasoning about intentions’ (Byrne, Juhos & Quelhas) at the European Society for Cognitive Psychology conference in Budapest 29th August – 1st September 2013.

Ruth Byrne presented a talk ‘Inferences between conditionals and disjunctions’ (Espino & Byrne) at the European Society for Cognitive Psychology  conference in Budapest 29th August – 1st September 2013.

Mary Parkinson presented a poster at ESCOP in Budapest 28th August-1st September 2013.

Eoin Gubbins presented a poster at the Cognitive Science Conference, Berlin, July 31st-August 3rd .

Professor Phil Johnson-Laird (New York University) visited the lab 22nd-25th August 2013, and attended talks: Eoin Gubbins: Inconsistency in reasoning about morally good and bad actions. Mary Parkinson: Moral responsibility judgments about causal and enabling agents.  

COGSCI2013, BERLIN Eoin Gubbins will present ‘Consistency in degrees of morality’ (Gubbins, Byrne & Johnson-Laird) at the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society in Berlin, August 1st-3rd 2013. Ruth Byrne will present ‘Reasoning about intentions’ (Ndubuisi & Byrne) … Continue reading →

Professor Sergio Moreno-Rios from Granada University in Spain will visit the lab this week. Eoin Gubbins and Mary Parkinson will give talks on May 23rd at 12 in the Board Room: Mary Parkinson: Judgments of moral responsibility for accidental and … Continue reading →

Mary Parkinson and Ruth Byrne have contributed an experiment to the Science Gallery’s latest exhibition ‘RISKLAB’. The Science Gallery describes RISK LAB   as examining “the psychology and mathematics underpinning the risks that surround every aspect of our lives, and our … Continue reading →

The Reasoning and Imagination Lab in the School of Psychology and Institute of Neuroscience at Trinity College Dublin carries out experimental and computational studies of the cognitive processes that underlie human thinking, especially deductive reasoning, counterfactual thinking, and judgments of … Continue reading →