Causal Learning: Psychology, Philosophy, and ComputationAlison Gopnik, Laura Schulz Understanding causal structure is a central task of human cognition. Causal learning underpins the development of our concepts and categories, our intuitive theories, and our capacities for planning, imagination and inference. During the last few years, there has been an interdisciplinary revolution in our understanding of learning and reasoning: Researchers in philosophy, psychology, and computation have discovered new mechanisms for learning the causal structure of the world. This new work provides a rigorous, formal basis for theory theories of concepts and cognitive development, and moreover, the causal learning mechanisms it has uncovered go dramatically beyond the traditional mechanisms of both nativist theories, such as modularity theories, and empiricist ones, such as association or connectionism. |
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... Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, Stanford, California. It is well known that the center is, almost unique among human experiences, even better than you think it is going to be, and we are extremely grateful to everyone at ...
... Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, Stanford, California. It is well known that the center is, almost unique among human experiences, even better than you think it is going to be, and we are extremely grateful to everyone at ...
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... behavior, physical events, and biological transformations are an outgrowth of domain-specific modules. In particular, modular, domain-specific accounts of causal reasoning do not seem to explain how we identify particular causal ...
... behavior, physical events, and biological transformations are an outgrowth of domain-specific modules. In particular, modular, domain-specific accounts of causal reasoning do not seem to explain how we identify particular causal ...
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... behavior could be shaped by reinforcing or punishing outcomes. Operant learning has been demonstrated in nonhuman animals ranging from pigeons to primates; unsurprisingly, it has been demonstrated in human babies as well. Thus, infants ...
... behavior could be shaped by reinforcing or punishing outcomes. Operant learning has been demonstrated in nonhuman animals ranging from pigeons to primates; unsurprisingly, it has been demonstrated in human babies as well. Thus, infants ...
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... behavior in the presence of the cue long after the association has disappeared). In the human case, Patricia Cheng demonstrated, for instance, that the R-W approach fails to account for boundary conditions on causal inference (1997) ...
... behavior in the presence of the cue long after the association has disappeared). In the human case, Patricia Cheng demonstrated, for instance, that the R-W approach fails to account for boundary conditions on causal inference (1997) ...
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... behavioral sciences and with a substantial methodological tradition in statistics, econometrics, and experimental design, which connects causal claims to claims about the outcomes of hypothetical experiments. Although it is possible to ...
... behavioral sciences and with a substantial methodological tradition in statistics, econometrics, and experimental design, which connects causal claims to claims about the outcomes of hypothetical experiments. Although it is possible to ...
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