From counterfactual simulation to causal judgment

Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 523-528

  Gerstenberg, Tobias ^a   Goodman, Noah D ^b   Lagnado, David A ^c   Tenenbaum, Joshua B ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

attribution; causality; counterfactuals; intuitive physics

Indexed keywords

ATTRIBUTION; BILLIARD BALLS; CAUSALITY; COUNTERFACTUALS; DEGREE OF BELIEF; INTUITIVE PHYSIC; SIMULATION MODEL;

EID: 85139209232     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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