Felipe De Brigard

Conference Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society Cognitive Diversity Cogsci 2022 · January 1, 2022 The human capacity for causal judgment has long been thought to depend on an ability to consider counterfactual alternatives: the lightning strike caused the forest fire because had it not struck, the forest fire would not have ensued. To accommodate psych ... Cite

Eye-tracking mental simulation during retrospective causal reasoning

Conference Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society Cognitive Diversity Cogsci 2022 · January 1, 2022 There are conflicting theories about how people reason through cause and effect. A key distinction between two prominent accounts pertains to whether, in judging an event's causal relevance, people preferentially consider what actually happened (as predict ... Cite

Norms and the meaning of omissive enabling conditions

Conference Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society Creativity Cognition Computation Cogsci 2019 · January 1, 2019 People often reason about omissions. One line of research shows that people can distinguish between the semantics of omissive causes and omissive enabling conditions: for instance, not flunking out of college enabled you (but didn't cause you) to graduate. ... Cite

The Effect for Category Learning on Recognition Memory: A Signal Detection Theory Analysis

Conference Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society Creativity Cognition Computation Cogsci 2019 · January 1, 2019 Previous studies have shown that category learning affects subsequent recognition memory. However, questions remain as to how category learning affects discriminability during recognition. In this three-stage study, we employed sets of simulated flowers wi ... Cite