Context modulates the contribution of time and space in causal inference

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue OCT, 2012, Pages

  Woods, Adam J ^a,b   Lehet, Matthew ^a,b   Chatterjee, Anjan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Causal inference and perception; Causality; Contextual information; Decision making; Space; Spatial continuity; Temporal contiguity; Time

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870954626     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00371     Document Type: Article

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