Add to ORKGRecent experiments (Beckers, De Houwer, Pineño, & Miller, 2005;Beckers, Miller, De Houwer, & Urushihara, 2006) have shown that pretraining with unrelated cues can dramatically influence the performance of humans in a causal learning paradigm and rats in a standard Pavlovian conditioning paradigm. Such pretraining can make classic phenomena (e.g. forward and backward blocking) disappear entirely. We explain these phenomena by a new Bayesian theory of sequential causal learning. Our theory assumes that humans and rats have available two alternative generative models for causal learning with continuous outcome variables. Using model-selection methods, the theory predicts how the form of the pretraining determines which model is selecte...
Conceiving of stimuli and responses as causes and effects, and assuming that rats acquire representa...
Abstract—Many researchers have noted the similarities be-tween causal judgment in humans and Pavhvia...
It has recently been argued that rats engage in causal reasoning and they do so in a way that is con...
Recent experiments (Beckers, De Houwer, Pineño, & Miller, 2005;Beckers, Miller, De Houwer, &...
shown that pretraining with unrelated cues can dramatically influence the performance of humans in a...
Two key research issues in the field of causal learning are how people acquire causal knowledge when...
Are humans unique in their ability to interpret exogenous events as causes? We addressed this questi...
Forward blocking is one of the best-documented phenomena in Pavlovian animal conditioning. According...
Conceiving of stimuli and responses as causes and effects, and assuming that rats acquire representa...
Abstract Are humans unique in their ability to interpret exogenous events as causes? We addressed th...
Additivity-related assumptions have been proven to modulate blocking in human causal learning. Typic...
A host of findings suggest that causal learning in adult humans relies on sophisticated inferential ...
Rats received either a common-cause (i.e., A→B, A→food) or a causal-chain training scenario (i.e., B...
A hallmark feature of elemental associative learning theories is that multiple cues compete for asso...
Conceiving of stimuli and responses as causes and effects, and assuming that rats acquire representa...
Abstract—Many researchers have noted the similarities be-tween causal judgment in humans and Pavhvia...
It has recently been argued that rats engage in causal reasoning and they do so in a way that is con...
Recent experiments (Beckers, De Houwer, Pineño, & Miller, 2005;Beckers, Miller, De Houwer, &...
shown that pretraining with unrelated cues can dramatically influence the performance of humans in a...
Two key research issues in the field of causal learning are how people acquire causal knowledge when...
Are humans unique in their ability to interpret exogenous events as causes? We addressed this questi...
Forward blocking is one of the best-documented phenomena in Pavlovian animal conditioning. According...
Conceiving of stimuli and responses as causes and effects, and assuming that rats acquire representa...
Abstract Are humans unique in their ability to interpret exogenous events as causes? We addressed th...
Additivity-related assumptions have been proven to modulate blocking in human causal learning. Typic...
A host of findings suggest that causal learning in adult humans relies on sophisticated inferential ...
Rats received either a common-cause (i.e., A→B, A→food) or a causal-chain training scenario (i.e., B...
A hallmark feature of elemental associative learning theories is that multiple cues compete for asso...
Conceiving of stimuli and responses as causes and effects, and assuming that rats acquire representa...
Abstract—Many researchers have noted the similarities be-tween causal judgment in humans and Pavhvia...
It has recently been argued that rats engage in causal reasoning and they do so in a way that is con...