The cognitive modeling of human behavior: Why a model is (sometimes) better than 10,000 words

Cognitive Systems Research

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 135-142

  Fum, Danilo ^a   Del Missier, Fabio ^a   Stocco, Andrea ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; BEHAVIOR; BOOTSTRAPPING; BRAIN DAMAGE; COGNITION; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MACHINE LEARNING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 34548634651     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13890417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogsys.2007.07.001     Document Type: Editorial

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