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Pearl, Judea – Cognitive Science, 2013
Recent advances in causal reasoning have given rise to a computational model that emulates the process by which humans generate, evaluate, and distinguish counterfactual sentences. Contrasted with the "possible worlds" account of counterfactuals, this "structural" model enjoys the advantages of representational economy,…
Descriptors: Causal Models, Cognitive Science, Sentences, Inferences
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Chater, Nick; Brown, Gordon D. A. – Cognitive Science, 2008
The remarkable successes of the physical sciences have been built on highly general quantitative laws, which serve as the basis for understanding an enormous variety of specific physical systems. How far is it possible to construct universal principles in the cognitive sciences, in terms of which specific aspects of perception, memory, or decision…
Descriptors: Sciences, Scientific Principles, Models, Memory