Contingency, causation, and adaptive inference

Psychological Review

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 682-684

  Over, David E ^a   Green, David W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUNDERLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BAYES THEOREM; BREAST TUMOR; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; PROBABILITY; REVIEW;

BAYES THEOREM; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; PROBABILITY;

EID: 85047682477     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0033-295X.108.3.682     Document Type: Article

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