Learning a Theory of Causality

Psychological Review

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 110-119

  Goodman, Noah D ^a   Ullman, Tomer D ^b   Tenenbaum, Joshua B ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blessing of abstraction; Causality; Learning; Nativism; Probabilistic models

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; COGNITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DRIVE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; LEARNING; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL;

BAYES THEOREM; CAUSALITY; COGNITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONCEPT FORMATION; HUMANS; INSTINCT; LEARNING; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 79251489111     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0021336     Document Type: Article

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