{"pk":31802,"title":"Causal Mechanisms as Temporal Bridges in a Connectionist Model of Causal Attribuion","subtitle":null,"abstract":"We use a connectionist model which relies on the\nencoding of lempnjral relationships a m o n g events to\ninvestigate the role of causal mechanisms in causal\nattribution. Mechanisms are encoded as intervening\nevents with temporal extent that occur between the\noffset of a causal event and the onset of an effect. In\none set of simulations, the presence of intervening\nevents facilitated acquisition of a relationship between\ncause and effect via the mechanism. In a second set of\nsimulations, prior experience with mechanisms\nenhanced development of a cause-effect relationship\nduring later training absent the mechanism. The results\nprovide evidence that causal mechanisms can facilitate\ncausal attribution via H u m e a n cues-to-causality.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Submitted Presentations","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7r18t6t0","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Michael","middle_name":"E.","last_name":"Young","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Minnesota","department":""},{"first_name":"Brian","middle_name":"","last_name":"DeBauche","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Minnesota","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"1993-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/31802/galley/22870/download/"}]}