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2004
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Children's causal inferences from indirect evidence: Backwards blocking and Bayesian reasoning in preschoolers
Previous research suggests that children can infer causal relations from patterns of events. However, what appear to be cases of causal inference may simply reduce to children rec...
David M. Sobel, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Alison Gopnik
COGSCI
2004
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Using movement and intentions to understand simple events
In order to understand ongoing activity, observers segment it into meaningful temporal parts. Segmentation can be based on bottom-up processing of distinctive sensory characterist...
Jeffrey M. Zacks
COGSCI
2004
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Pragmatic effects on reference resolution in a collaborative task: evidence from eye movements
In order to investigate whether addressees can make immediate use of speaker-based constraints during reference resolution, participant addressees' eye movements were monitor...
Joy E. Hanna, Michael K. Tanenhaus
COGSCI
2004
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Varieties of sameness: the impact of relational complexity on perceptual comparisons
The fundamental relations that underlie cognitive comparisons--"same" and "different"--can be demultiple levels of abstraction, which vary in relational comple...
James K. Kroger, Keith J. Holyoak, John E. Hummel
COGSCI
2004
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Generation and evaluation of user tailored responses in multimodal dialogue
When people engage in conversation, they tailor their utterances to their conversational partners, whether these partners are other humans or computational systems. This tailoring...
Marilyn A. Walker, Steve Whittaker, Amanda Stent, ...