Indicator or biomarker
Causal-binding accessibility
A measure of how accessible causal relations are in a person's event representation
Hypotheses on this target 1
Telling states apart
Direct measurement1
Indicator replacement
Direct measurement1
Conflicting revisions may erode connected story memories even after the text is repaired
Where this hypothesis actsHumans repeatedly reconciling incompatible narrative versions with restored checkpoint text
What is proposedMeasure causal-binding accessibility independently of scored retelling errors
With whatInstrument or assay
HowUse comprehension probes in separate calibration cohorts to estimate the connected region of bindings below a preregistered accessibility threshold
Possible resultPossible prediction of accelerating, adjacent causal-role failures beyond matched text and ordinary interference
2026-10-05