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causal learning

Description: The process by which humans or other organisms acquire knowledge about causal relationships through observation, inference, or experience.
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A Theory of Causal Learning in Children: Causal Maps and Bayes Nets.
2004 · Alison Gopnik, Clark Glymour, et al. · Psychological Review · 1,225
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Theory-based Bayesian models of inductive learning and reasoning
2006 · Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Thomas L. Griffiths, et al. · Trends in Cognitive Sciences · 879
Causal reasoning with forces
2015 · Phillip Wolff, Aron K. Barbey · Frontiers in Human Neuroscience · 788
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Reconstructing constructivism: Causal models, Bayesian learning mechanisms, and the theory theory.
2012 · Alison Gopnik, Henry M. Wellman · Psychological Bulletin · 664
Causal learning mechanisms in very young children: Two-, three-, and four-year-olds infer causal relations from patterns of variation and covariation.
2001 · Alison Gopnik, David M. Sobel, et al. · Developmental Psychology · 523
Serious fun: Preschoolers engage in more exploratory play when evidence is confounded.
2007 · Laura E. Schulz, Elizabeth Baraff Bonawitz · Developmental Psychology · 461
Detecting Blickets: How Young Children Use Information about Novel Causal Powers in Categorization and Induction
2000 · Alison Gopnik, David M Sobel · Child Development · 419
Causal Learning
2007 · 416
Theory-based causal induction.
2009 · Thomas L. Griffiths, Joshua B. Tenenbaum · Psychological Review · 389
Changes in cognitive flexibility and hypothesis search across human life history from childhood to adolescence to adulthood
2017 · Alison Gopnik, Shaun O’Grady, et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 328
Where science starts: Spontaneous experiments in preschoolers’ exploratory play
2011 · Claire Cook, Noah D. Goodman, et al. · Cognition · 318
Bayesian Brains without Probabilities
2016 · Adam N. Sanborn, Nick Chater · Trends in Cognitive Sciences · 302
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Causal Reasoning in Rats
2006 · Aaron P. Blaisdell, Kosuke Sawa, et al. · Science · 294
The Mind's Arrows: Bayes Nets and Graphical Causal Models in Psychology
2001 · Clark Glymour · 278
The Mind's Arrows
2001 · Clark Glymour · The MIT Press eBooks · 277
Causal learning across domains.
2004 · Laura E. Schulz, Alison Gopnik · Developmental Psychology · 260
Cognition Before Curriculum
2013 · Kulamakan Mahan Kulasegaram, Maria Athina Martimianakis, et al. · Academic Medicine · 255
Mechanisms of theory formation in young children
2004 · Alison Gopnik, Laura Schulz · Trends in Cognitive Sciences · 251
Preschool children learn about causal structure from conditional interventions
2007 · Laura E. Schulz, Alison Gopnik, et al. · Developmental Science · 248
When children are better (or at least more open-minded) learners than adults: Developmental differences in learning the forms of causal relationships
2014 · Christopher G. Lucas, Sophie Bridgers, et al. · Cognition · 239
Over-imitation is better explained by norm learning than by distorted causal learning
2010 · Ben Kenward, Markus Karlsson, et al. · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 227
Knowledge matters: How children evaluate the reliability of testimony as a process of rational inference.
2013 · David M. Sobel, Tamar Kushnir · Psychological Review · 225
Causal Learning and Inference as a Rational Process: The New Synthesis
2010 · Keith J. Holyoak, Patricia W. Cheng · Annual Review of Psychology · 225
Young Children Infer Causal Strength From Probabilities and Interventions
2005 · Tamar Kushnir, Alison Gopnik · Psychological Science · 218
On causal and anticausal learning
2012 · Dominik Janzing, Jonas Peters, et al. · International Conference on Machine Learning · 213
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