Inferring the Future by Imagining the Past (Exp 2)
Participants view a security-camera still of an alien in a room with a red and a blue gem locked behind colored doors that require matching keys. From the alien's position they infer which gem it wants, reasoning about the key/door subgoals.
Theory of MindGoal InferenceSocial Cognition
Study metadata
- Authors
- Kartik Chandra, Tony Chen, Tzu-Mao Li, Jonathan Ragan-Kelley, Joshua B. Tenenbaum
- Source
- Chandra, K., Chen, T., Li, T.-M., Ragan-Kelley, J., & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2023). Inferring the future by imagining the past. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 36, 21196-21216.
- Slug
- chandra2023inferring-exp2