Children posit hidden causes to explain causal variability

Expanding the Space of Cognitive Science - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 3098-3103

  Buchanan, David W ^a   Sobel, David M ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

causal reasoning; cognitive development; hidden Markov models; models of causal reasoning

Indexed keywords

CAUSAL REASONING; CAUSAL RELATIONS; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; HIDDEN-MARKOV MODELS; MODEL FIT; MODEL OF CAUSAL REASONING; PROPORTIONAL MODELS; SPECIFIC LOCATION;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

EID: 84894079566     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
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