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...
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-...
With human language, the same utterance can have different meanings in different contexts. Nevertheless, listeners almost invariably converge upon the correct intended meaning. Th...
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...
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