Testing Bayesian and heuristic predictions of mass judgments of colliding objects

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue AUG, 2014, Pages

  Sanborn, Adam N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayesian models; Heuristics; Intuitive physics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906335854     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00938     Document Type: Article

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