Bayes and Blickets: Effects of Knowledge on Causal Induction in Children and Adults

People are adept at inferring novel causal relations, even from only a few observations. Prior knowledge about the probability of encountering causal relations of various types and the nature of the mechanisms relating causes and effects plays a crucial role in these inferences. We test a formal acc...

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Main Authors: Griffiths, Thomas L. (Author), Sobel, David M. (Author), Tenenbaum, Joshua B. (Contributor), Gopnik, Alison (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley Blackwell, 2015-01-12T20:09:45Z.
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