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Neural Correlates of Causal Confounding

2018-08-20

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As scientists, we are keenly aware that if putative causes perfectly co-vary, the independent influence of neither can be discerned – a “no confounding” constraint on inference, fundamental to philosophical and statistical perspectives on causation. Intriguingly, a substantial behavioral literature suggests that naïve human reasoners, adults and children, are tacitly sensitive to causal confounding. Here, a combin...

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DOI: 10.1101/395707

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