The first LCI Conte Center paper is out! Research is the Niv lab shows that  humans incorporate time in their inference of latent causes, such that recently inferred latent causes are more likely to be inferred again. They present a novel task in which participants see “microbe” stimuli and explicitly report the latent cause (“strain”) they infer for each microbe. 

This paper is dedicated to our beloved colleague Dr. Sarah DuBrow, who created the microbes task to study latent cause inference together with Dr. Yeon Soon Shin. The paper is published as part of a special issue in her memory.