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    "pk": 30059,
    "title": "What you didn’t see:Prevention and generation in continuous time causal induction",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "How do people use temporal information to make causal judg-ments? A number of studies have investigated the role of timein inferring generative causal structure, while few have exam-ined prevention. Here, we focus on a challenging task in whichparticipants learn the structure of several causal “devices” bywatching the devices’ patterns of activation over time. Eachdevice potentially includes both generative (producing an acti-vation of its effect) and preventative (blocking any effect acti-vations within a short time window) causal relationships. Weexamine judgment patterns through the lens of a normativemodel which incorporates actual causation with considerationsof prevention. We contrast this with a more computationallytractable feature-based approximation. Participants’ perfor-mance was substantially above chance in all conditions. Themajority of participants’ causal judgments were best fit by thefeature-based approximation based on delay and count heuris-tic cues.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
        "name": "",
        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "causal learning; time; prevention; structure induc-tion; Bayesian modelling"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Poster Session 3",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9pg363n6",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Tianwei",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Gong",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Edinburgh",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Neil",
            "middle_name": "R.",
            "last_name": "Bramley",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Edinburgh",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2020-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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