{
  "id": 16912104,
  "title": "Causal reasoning is domain-specific in the human brain",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/28/causal-reasoning-is-domain-specific-in-the-human-brain",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-28T00:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "bioRxiv",
    "slug": "biorxiv",
    "url": "https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.27.762213v1?rss=1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "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…",
  "key_points": [],
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  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}