Abducing chances in hybrid humans as decision makers

Information Sciences

Volumn 179, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1628-1638

  Magnani, Lorenzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Abduction; Affordances; Chance seeking; Cognitive niches; Decision making

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; ECOLOGY; MOTORS;

ABDUCTION; AFFORDANCES; BRAIN ACTIVITIES; CHANCE-SEEKING; COGNITIVE FUNCTIONS; COGNITIVE NICHES; DECISION MAKERS; MOTOR ACTIONS;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 62249214208     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2008.11.022     Document Type: Article

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