My 5-year-old nephew once confidently told me that all dinosaurs were green because his three dinosaur toys were green. So I showed him a nature documentary, Walking with Dinosaurs, and suddenly, ...

All advertisements aim at persuasion. For example, imagine that Brand X cola claims to be the most refreshing drink. Simply stating this isn't very convincing, so a Brand X advertisement features a ...

Event-related potentials (ERPs) provide a window into the temporal dynamics of brain activity during inductive reasoning and categorisation tasks. By recording rapid fluctuations in electrical brain ...

Inductive reasoning is a branch of logic. In a valid inductive argument, the conclusion (consequent) is believed to be true on the basis of its antecedents. For example, when all swans are observed to ...

Inductive reasoning is a method of accumulating knowledge. By its nature, science must make leaps into the unknown, formulating hypotheses and searching for evidence of their truth. This is called ...