Abstract
Time and causality: editorial
Highlights
It is my great pleasure to be able to introduce the research topic on Time and Causality
Greville and Buehner (2012) pick up on the wellestablished finding that degrading cause-effect contiguity leads to concomitant decrements in causal learning
Rankin and McCormack’s (2013) is the first of two developmental articles in the volume and clarifies previously ambiguous or contradictory evidence regarding the understanding of the temporal priority principle—that causes must precede their effects
Summary
The majority of research on Time and Causality in previous decades investigated how temporal information constrains causal inference (for an overview see Buehner, 2005). Such research is rooted in David Hume’s assessment that causal knowledge must be inferred from non-causal input, in a manner where empirical cues of contingency, contiguity, and temporal priority elicit causal impressions in a bottomup manner (Einhorn and Hogarth, 1986; Buehner and May, 2002).
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