About the Reasoning Lab

Directed by Professors Patricia Cheng and Keith Holyoak of the Department of Psychology, The UCLA Reasoning Lab is dedicated to theoretical and empirical investigation of thinking and reasoning. Together with many collaborators and students, the lab combines behavioral studies of human cognition with computational and neuropsychological projects. The lab focuses on thinking in normal human adults, but is also guided by work on cognitive development and animal cognition. The lab is currently supported by a  
grant from the Office of Naval Research.

Here you will find information about the research of the lab and publications it has produced, with links to full-text pdf files for some of our most important findings.

Lab News

New article: Lee, H. S. and Holyoak, K. J. (2008). The Role of Causal Models in Analogical Inference. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, Vol. 34, No. 5, 1111–1122