%0 Journal Article %T Explanation as a Cognitive Process %J - %D 2019 %R https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2018.12.004 %X In the present opinion article, we argue that research on the cognitive inputs to explanation should be much more prominent in the cognitive science of explanation than it currently is. How do the characteristics of attention, memory, metacognition, etc., shape the process by which people generate explanations %U https://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/fulltext/S1364-6613(18)30285-7