The soft constraints hypothesis: A rational analysis approach to resource allocation for interactive behavior

Psychological Review

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 461-482

  Gray, Wayne D ^a   Sims, Chris R ^a   Fu, Wai Tat ^b   Schoelles, Michael J ^a  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Embodied cognition; Interactive behavior; Rational analysis; Reinforcement learning; Resource allocation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; REINFORCEMENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

COGNITION; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33746347681     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0033-295X.113.3.461     Document Type: Article

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