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Causal reasoning is domain-specific in the human brain

Causal reasoning enables humans to explain the past, predict the future, and intervene on the present. Despite extensive interest in causal inference by philosophers, cognitive scientists, and developmental psychologists, few studies have investigated causal reasoning in the human brain. Here we use fMRI to ask whether a unified brain system exists that implements causal inference across content…

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