The contingency symmetry bias (affirming the consequent fallacy) as a prerequisite for word learning: A comparative study of pre-linguistic human infants and chimpanzees
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DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104755
Abstract: Humans are known to possess an "affirming the consequent fallacy," which assumes that a learned contingency holds true even when the order is reversed. In contrast, non-human animals do not fall for this fallacy, as… read more here.
Keywords: contingency symmetry; word learning; symmetry bias;