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Neil Bramley

The University of Edinburgh
Verified email at ed.ac.uk
Cited by 957

The experience of living with Parkinson's disease: An interpretative phenomenological analysis case study

N Bramley, V Eatough - Psychology & Health, 2005 - Taylor & Francis
What are the lived experiences of an individual with a chronic degenerative disorder? The
aim of this study is to address this question by exploring one individual's personal experience …

[PDF][PDF] Pronouns of politics: the use of pronouns in the construction of'self'and'other'in political interviews

NR Bramley - 2001 - Citeseer
Pronouns play a key role in the construction of ‘self’and ‘other’. They are not merely a way of
expressing person, number and gender as is suggested by traditional grammarians nor do …

Formalizing Neurath's ship: Approximate algorithms for online causal learning.

NR Bramley, P Dayan, TL Griffiths… - Psychological …, 2017 - psycnet.apa.org
… We first compare the predictions of our framework to existing data from Bramley, Lagnado,
and Speekenbrink (2015). We then report on three new experiments designed to further test …

[HTML][HTML] A model of conceptual bootstrapping in human cognition

B Zhao, CG Lucas, NR Bramley - Nature Human Behaviour, 2024 - nature.com
… Across four behavioural experiments (total n = 570), we demonstrate … Here we default the
last type t n in a type t 1 → … → t n to be the … For n input variables we concatenate n routers in …

Conservative forgetful scholars: How people learn causal structure through sequences of interventions.

NR Bramley, DA Lagnado… - Journal of Experimental …, 2015 - psycnet.apa.org
… Because the number of possible direct links increases at a rate of xlm_41_3_708_math1.gif
, where N is the length of the chain, the need for controlled interventions for causal learning …

[HTML][HTML] Children's use of interventions to learn causal structure

T McCormack, N Bramley, C Frosch, F Patrick… - Journal of experimental …, 2016 - Elsevier
Children between 5 and 8 years of age freely intervened on a three-variable causal system,
with their task being to discover whether it was a common cause structure or one of two …

Intuitive experimentation in the physical world

NR Bramley, T Gerstenberg, JB Tenenbaum… - Cognitive …, 2018 - Elsevier
Many aspects of our physical environment are hidden. For example, it is hard to estimate
how heavy an object is from visual observation alone. In this paper we examine how people …

Time in causal structure learning.

NR Bramley, T Gerstenberg, R Mayrhofer… - Journal of …, 2018 - psycnet.apa.org
A large body of research has explored how the time between two events affects judgments
of causal strength between them. In this article, we extend this work in 4 experiments that …

Broken physics: A conjunction-fallacy effect in intuitive physical reasoning

E Ludwin-Peery, NR Bramley, E Davis… - Psychological …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
… In Experiment 1 (n = 60), participants consistently rated conjunction events as more likely …
(n = 180) extended these results to rule out several alternative explanations. Experiment 3 (n = …

Limits on simulation approaches in intuitive physics

E Ludwin-Peery, NR Bramley, E Davis… - Cognitive Psychology, 2021 - Elsevier
A popular explanation of the human ability for physical reasoning is that it depends on a
sophisticated ability to perform mental simulations. According to this perspective, physical …