The researchers found that participants' inferences were heavily influenced by references to specific past and future events in characters' conversations. Like people in real life, characters in ...

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If you started watching a movie from the middle without knowing its plot, you’d likely be better at inferring what had happened earlier than predicting what will happen next, according to a new ...