How can anyone be rational in a world where knowledge is limited, time is pressing, and deep thought is often an unattainable luxury? Traditional models of unbounded rationality …
In this response, we clarify several misunderstandings of the understanding/acceptance principle and defend our specific operationalization of that principle. We reiterate the …
A Clark, C Thornton - Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1997 - cambridge.org
Some regularities enjoy only an attenuated existence in a body of training data. These are regularities whose statistical visibility depends on some systematic recoding of the data. The …
K Vaesen - Behavioral and brain sciences, 2012 - cambridge.org
This article has two goals. The first is to assess, in the face of accruing reports on the ingenuity of great ape tool use, whether and in what sense human tool use still evidences …
PJH Schoemaker - Behavioral and brain sciences, 1991 - cambridge.org
This paper examines the strengths and weaknesses of one of science's most pervasive and flexible metaprinciples; optimality is used to explain utility maximization in economics, least …
RJ Sternberg - Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1984 - cambridge.org
This article is a synopsis of a triarchic theory of human intelligence. The theory comprises three subtheories: a contextual subtheory, which relates intelligence to the external world of …
DC Dennett - Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1978 - cambridge.org
It is argued that the traditional distinction between artificial intelligence and cognitive simulation amounts to little more than a difference in style of research~ a different ordering in …
Across many domains of decision making, people seem both rational and irrational. We review recent work that aims to reconcile these apparently contradictory views by modeling …
EM Macphail - Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1987 - cambridge.org
Recent decades have seen a number of influential attacks on the comparative psychology of learning and intelligence. Two specific charges have been that the use of distantly related …