The causal psycho-logic of choice

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 407-412

  Sloman, Steven A ^a   Hagmayer, York ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYES NETS THEORY; CAUSAL MODELS; PSYCHO-LOGIC;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; DECISION MAKING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS;

FORMAL LOGIC;

ARTICLE; CAUSAL MODELING; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; INTERVENTION STUDY; LOGIC; OBSERVATION; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

BAYES THEOREM; CAUSALITY; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; HUMANS; LOGIC; MOTIVATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 33747878203     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2006.07.001     Document Type: Article

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