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2010
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The Role of Explanation in Discovery and Generalization: Evidence From Category Learning
Research in education and cognitive development suggests that explaining plays a key role in learning and generalization: When learners provide explanations--even to themselves--t...
Joseph J. Williams, Tania Lombrozo
COGSCI
2010
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Moral Principles or Consumer Preferences? Alternative Framings of the Trolley Problem
We created paired moral dilemmas with minimal contrasts in wording, a research strategy that has been advocated as a way to empirically establish principles operative in a domain-...
Tage S. Rai, Keith J. Holyoak
COGSCI
2010
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The Evolution of Relevance
With human language, the same utterance can have different meanings in different contexts. Nevertheless, listeners almost invariably converge upon the correct intended meaning. Th...
Thomas C. Scott-Phillips
COGSCI
2010
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Space and Time in the Child's Mind: Evidence for a Cross-Dimensional Asymmetry
What is the relationship between space and time in the human mind? Studies in adults show an asymmetric relationship between mental representations of these basic dimensions of ex...
Daniel Casasanto, Olga Fotakopoulou, Lera Borodits...
COGSCI
2010
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Learning to Learn Causal Models
Learning to understand a single causal system can be an achievement, but humans must learn about multiple causal systems over the course of a lifetime. We present a hierarchical B...
Charles Kemp, Noah D. Goodman, Joshua B. Tenenbaum