Bayesian inference underlies the contraction bias in delayed comparison tasks

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Ashourian, Paymon ^a   Loewenstein, Yonatan ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CONTRACTION BIAS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY;

BAYES THEOREM; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY);

EID: 79955939672     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019551     Document Type: Article

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