Updating: Learning versus supposing

Cognition

Volumn 124, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 373-378

  Zhao, Jiaying ^a   Crupi, Vincenzo ^b   Tentori, Katya ^c   Fitelson, Branden ^d   Osherson, Daniel ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^d Department of Childhood Studies at Rutgers University   (United States)

Author keywords

Belief updating; Probability; Reasoning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BAYESIAN LEARNING; BEHAVIOR; BELIEF; CALCULATION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; REASONING; TASK PERFORMANCE; THINKING; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ALGORITHMS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROBABILITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84864042423     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2012.05.001     Document Type: Article

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