Exemplar models as a mechanism for performing Bayesian inference

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 443-464

  Shi, Lei ^a   Griffiths, Thomas L ^a   Feldman, Naomi H ^b   Sanborn, Adam N ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BAYES THEOREM; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FORECASTING; HUMAN; LEARNING; MEMORY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; RECOGNITION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ATTENTION; BAYES THEOREM; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FORECASTING; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; MEMORY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 77957277972     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/PBR.17.4.443     Document Type: Article

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