Causal Learning With Local Computations

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 678-693

  Fernbach, Philip M ^a   Sloman, Steven A ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; causal learning; causal structure; heuristics; intervention

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; LEARNING; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; ORIENTATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; RECALL; REINFORCEMENT;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CAUSALITY; DECISION MAKING; FEEDBACK; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; KNOWLEDGE OF RESULTS (PSYCHOLOGY); MENTAL RECALL; MOTION PERCEPTION; ORIENTATION; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 65749089280     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0014928     Document Type: Article

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