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Think outside the box: Making up causal hypotheses from unreliable evidence

2025-08-17

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<p>Human adults and children think of the natural world as orchestrated by rules, yet many of them are neither equally rigid nor clearly evident. Some are beset by exceptions, and others are not intuitive. What cognitive mechanisms underpin human learning of how the world works? We propose a computational model for formulating and testing hypotheses in naturalistic contexts, that combines Bayesian inference under...

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Literature Corpus work: d03a26b5-4e49-5a8e-b8f1-d696be30c53c
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/rqexa_v1

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