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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Psychology, Philosophy, and Computation Alison Gopnik, Laura Schulz. learned conferences. Suppose that I notice that ... development of causal Bayes net algorithms also allows us to determine what will happen when we intervene from ...
Psychology, Philosophy, and Computation Alison Gopnik, Laura Schulz. learned conferences. Suppose that I notice that ... development of causal Bayes net algorithms also allows us to determine what will happen when we intervene from ...
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... psychology of causal learning. As you'll see, even the best theoretical ... development in general, was initiated by the work of Jean Piaget (1929, 1930) ... psychological activity and physical mechanism (Piaget 1930). This conclusion was ...
... psychology of causal learning. As you'll see, even the best theoretical ... development in general, was initiated by the work of Jean Piaget (1929, 1930) ... psychological activity and physical mechanism (Piaget 1930). This conclusion was ...
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Psychology, Philosophy, and Computation Alison Gopnik, Laura Schulz. Nativist and Modular Views of Causal Reasoning Over the past several decades, however—and with the development ... psychological and physical causality. Specifically, ...
Psychology, Philosophy, and Computation Alison Gopnik, Laura Schulz. Nativist and Modular Views of Causal Reasoning Over the past several decades, however—and with the development ... psychological and physical causality. Specifically, ...
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Psychology, Philosophy, and Computation Alison Gopnik, Laura Schulz. an ... development, both phylogenetically and ontogentically. Importantly, human ... development. Rescorla 10 CAUSAL LEARNING.
Psychology, Philosophy, and Computation Alison Gopnik, Laura Schulz. an ... development, both phylogenetically and ontogentically. Importantly, human ... development. Rescorla 10 CAUSAL LEARNING.
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Psychology, Philosophy, and Computation Alison Gopnik, Laura Schulz. classical conditioning is an ontogenetically, phylogentically, early, robust development. Rescorla modified Pavlov's theory to suggest that contingency, not just ...
Psychology, Philosophy, and Computation Alison Gopnik, Laura Schulz. classical conditioning is an ontogenetically, phylogentically, early, robust development. Rescorla modified Pavlov's theory to suggest that contingency, not just ...
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