On the Origins of Suboptimality in Human Probabilistic Inference

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Acerbi, Luigi ^a   Vijayakumar, Sethu ^a   Wolpert, Daniel M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; DECISION THEORY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STOCHASTIC MODELS;

BAYESIAN INTEGRATION; GAUSSIANS; OPTIMAL PREDICTIONS; PERFORMANCE; PRIOR DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILISTIC INFERENCE; QUANTITATIVE AGREEMENT; SENSORY INFORMATION; STATISTICAL FEATURES; SUBOPTIMALITY;

STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; DECISION MAKING; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MENTAL TASK; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL CONCEPTS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; SUBOPTIMALITY; ADOLESCENT; ALGORITHM; BIOLOGY; TASK PERFORMANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84903384868     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003661     Document Type: Article

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