Black boxes: Hypothesis testing via indirect perceptual evidence

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

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 1425-1430

  Siegel, Max H ^a   Magid, Rachel ^a   Tenenbaum, Joshua B ^a   Schulz, Laura E ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

BLACK BOXES; CAUSAL RELATIONS; CAUSAL SYSTEMS; EFFECTIVE LEARNING; HIDDEN VARIABLE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PHYSICAL WORLD; REAL-WORLD; THEORY THEORIES; THROUGH THE LENS;

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EID: 85113410945     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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