Underreliance on Mechanistic Models: Comment on Ferguson (2015)

American Psychologist

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 505-506

  Tryon, Warren W ^a  

^a FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Explanation; Interpretation; Mechanism; Public perception

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; HUMAN;

HUMANS; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER);

EID: 84983738232     PISSN: 0003066X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0040108     Document Type: Article

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