Infants use rational decision criteria for choosing among models of their input

Cognition

Volumn 115, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 362-366

  Gerken, LouAnn ^a  

^a The University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Generalization; Infants; Rational learner

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RECOGNITION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; BAYES THEOREM; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT BEHAVIOR; LANGUAGE; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 77649181580     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2010.01.006     Document Type: Article

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