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  • Title: Dissociating processes supporting causal perception and causal inference in the brain.
    Author: Roser ME, Fugelsang JA, Dunbar KN, Corballis PM, Gazzaniga MS.
    Journal: Neuropsychology; 2005 Sep; 19(5):591-602. PubMed ID: 16187877.
    Abstract:
    An understanding of relations between causes and effects is essential for making sense of the dynamic physical world. It has been argued that this understanding of causality depends on both perceptual and inferential components. To investigate whether causal perception and causal inference rely on common or on distinct processes, the authors tested 2 callosotomy (split-brain) patients and a group of neurologically intact participants. The authors show that the direct perception of causality and the ability to infer causality depend on different hemispheres of the divided brain. This finding implies that understanding causality is not a unitary process and that causal perception and causal inference can proceed independently.
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