Optimal inference of sameness

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 3178-3183

  Van Den Berg, Ronald ^a   Vogel, Michael ^b   Josić, Krešimir ^b   Ma, Wei Ji ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b University of Houston   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Decision making; Ideal observer; Vision

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMENESS;

ANIMALS; COGNITION; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOMETRICS;

EID: 84857414998     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1108790109     Document Type: Article

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