Phil Fernbach

philip_fernbach@brown.edu

  
             
   
  Hi and welcome to my page. I'm a third year graduate student in the department of cognitive and linguistic sciences at Brown University. I am interested in higher level cognitive processes and in computational models that attempt to account for human induction. My current work is focused on causal learning, property induction and on the relation between causal beliefs and perception. I did my undergraduate work in philosophy and pre-med at Williams College.  
   
 

Publications:

Fernbach, P. M., Linson-Gentry, P & Sloman, S. A.(2007). Causal beliefs influence the perception of temporal order. Proceedings of the twenty-ninth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Sloman, S. A. & Fernbach, P. M. (in press). The value of rational analysis:  An assessment of causal reasoning and learning.  In Chater, N. & Oaksford, M. (Eds.).  The probabilistic mind: Prospects for rational models of cognition. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Fernbach, P. M. (2006). Sampling assumptions and the size principle in property induction. Proceedings of the twenty-eighth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

 

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