Does the utility of information influence sampling behavior?

Building Bridges Across Cognitive Sciences Around the World - Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 719-724

  Markant, Doug ^a   Gureckis, Todd M ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

active learning; information access costs; information sampling

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LEARNING; HUMAN COGNITION; INFORMATION ACCESS COSTS; INFORMATION SAMPLINGS; INFORMATION SEARCH; SEARCH TASKS; SEQUENTIAL INFORMATION; SIMPLE++; SOURCES OF INFORMATIONS; UTILITY OF INFORMATION;

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