How do people generalize causal relations over objects? a non-parametric bayesian account

B Zhao, CG Lucas, NR Bramley - Computational Brain & Behavior, 2022 - Springer
How do people decide how general a causal relationship is, in terms of the entities or
situations it applies to? What features do people use to decide whether a new situation is …

Powering up causal generalization: A model of human conceptual bootstrapping with adaptor grammars

B Zhao, NR Bramley, C Lucas - … of the Annual Meeting of the …, 2022 - escholarship.org
Human learning and generalization benefit from bootstrapping: we arrive at complex
concepts by starting small and building upon past successes. In this paper, we examine a …

Building object-based causal programs for human-like generalization

B Zhao, CG Lucas, NR Bramley - arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.12560, 2021 - arxiv.org
We present a novel task that measures how people generalize objects' causal powers
based on observing a single (Experiment 1) or a few (Experiment 2) causal interactions …

Computational framework of human causal generalization

B Zhao - 2023 - era.ed.ac.uk
How do people decide how general a causal relationship is, in terms of the entities or
situations it applies to? How can people make these difficult judgments in a fast, efficient …