An introduction to good practices in cognitive modeling

An Introduction to Model-Based Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 25-48

  Heathcote, Andrew ^a   Brown, Scott D ^a   Wagenmakers, Eric Jan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cognition; Model; Model selection; Parameter estimation; Quantitative; Simulation study; Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84943539886     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-2236-9_2     Document Type: Book

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