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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"counterfactual reasoning"”.
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Exploring the Development of Counterfactual Reasoning in Chinese Preschool Children
Counterfactual reasoning is the ability to infer what outcomes would have resulted if a past event or state had been different. It is helpful for learning lessons from the past to draw blueprints for the future. Studies on counterfactual reasoning development have focused on children speaking …
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Pretence and Counterfactual Reasoning: What is the nature of the relationship
… the theoretical assertion that pretence and counterfactual reasoning involve the same cognitive mechanisms. However, there is little empirical evidence concerning the nature of the association between pretence and counterfactual reasoning (CFR), and the associations of these constructs with …
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Comprehending counterfactuals
Counterfactual reasoning, an understanding of events that are counter to reality, or false, is an essential ingredient of our everyday cognition. Counterfactual situations are frequently depicted through language, yet surprisingly little is known of how they are processed during reading or …
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Polyscheme : a cognitive architecture for intergrating multiple representation and inference schemes
… reason maintenance, stochastic simulation and counterfactual reasoning) as focus schemes.
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On Backward Induction Paradox
… rationality, common knowledge of rationality and counterfactual reasoning have turned out to be crucial in the backward induction argument.
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Active Inference in Multi-Objective Dynamic Environments
… which allows the agent to perform more complex counterfactual reasoning.
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The cognitive and neural basis of complex decision-making in the primate brain
… that were indicative of simple forms of counterfactual reasoning. However, it was difficult from behavior alone to test whether monkeys were actually using multiple different strategies to solve the task. To investigate this possibility and the underlying neurobiology of hierarchical and …
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Representation Learning Based Causal Inference in Observational Studies
… justified by a new generalization bound on the counterfactual prediction accuracy. The robustness and effectiveness of this framework are demonstrated through an extensive set of tests against competing solutions on semi-synthetic and real-world datasets. In recognition of the reliability issue …