How Recent History Affects Perception: The Normative Approach and Its Heuristic Approximation

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Raviv, Ofri ^a   Ahissar, Merav ^a   Loewenstein, Yonatan ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; DECISION MAKING;

BAYESIAN DETECTORS; BAYESIAN FRAMEWORKS; COMPUTATIONAL APPROACH; DISCRIMINATION TASKS; HEURISTIC APPROXIMATIONS; IMPROVE PERFORMANCE; NOISY OBSERVATIONS; PERFORMANCE; PRIOR DISTRIBUTION; PRIOR-KNOWLEDGE;

INFERENCE ENGINES;

EID: 84868157975     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002731     Document Type: Article

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