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Do we really have conditional statements in our brains?

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    Jean-Michel Hoc

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Hoc, JM. (1984). Do we really have conditional statements in our brains?. In: van der Veer, G.C., Tauber, M.J., Green, T.R.G., Gorny, P. (eds) Readings on Cognitive Ergonomics — Mind and Computers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 178. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-13394-1_8

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