Learning with a Purpose: The Influence of Goals

Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 1766-1771

  Wellen, Sarah ^a   Danks, David ^a  

^a Baker Hall 135   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Frugality; Goals; Learning; Rationality; Task effects

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; INFERENCE ENGINES; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

BAYESIAN INFERENCE; BAYESIAN MODELLING; FRUGALITY; GOAL; GOAL-DRIVEN; LEARNING; LEARNING MODELS; POSSIBLE MECHANISMS; RATIONALITY; TASK EFFECTS;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS;

EID: 84949536119     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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