Inference to the Best Decision

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Churchland, Patricia Smith ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b The Salk Institutes   (United States)

Author keywords

Abduction; Case based reasoning; Cognitive process; Decision; Inference; Neural networks; Neurobiology; Neuroscience; Psychology; Social behavior

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923433203     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195304787.003.0017     Document Type: Chapter

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