Making causal inferences regarding human behaviour is difficult given the complex interplay between countless contributors to behaviour, including factors in the external world and our internal states ...

Animals survive in changing and unpredictable environments by not merely responding to new circumstances, but also, like humans, by forming inferences about their surroundings—for instance, squirrels ...

The ability to infer character from behavior is an essential skill that adults use to navigate the social world. We investigated 12- to 24-month-old infants’ (Experiment 1, n = 160; Experiment 2, n = ...

A new study of brain activity patterns in people doing a memory task finds that the way we make inferences -- finding hidden connections between different experiences -- changes dramatically as we age ...