Topics in Cognitive Science 6 (4):663-680 (2014)
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This article looks at the way people determine the antecedent of a pronoun in sentence pairs, such as: Albert invited Ron to dinner. He spent hours cleaning the house. The experiment reported here is motivated by the idea that such judgments depend on reasoning about identity . Because the identity of an individual over time depends on the causal-historical path connecting the stages of the individual, the correct antecedent will also depend on causal connections. The experiment varied how likely it is that the event of the first sentence would cause the event of the second for each of the two individuals . Decisions about the antecedent followed causal likelihood. A mathematical model of causal identity accounted for most of the key aspects of the data from the individual sentence pairs
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Keywords | Causation Anaphora Pronoun resolution Ambiguity resolution Singular concepts Identity over time Causal reasoning |
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DOI | 10.1111/tops.12105 |
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