Inferring the Future by Imagining the Past (Exp 3)
A person rearranges letter blocks to spell a word (DIGGER or RIGGED) but is interrupted by a fire alarm. From the partial configuration, participants infer (word_choice trials) which word was being spelled, and (block_touched trials) how likely a specific highlighted block was touched.
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-exp3