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Towards a unifying theory of generalization

2017-12-01

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<p>How do humans generalize from observed to unobserved data? How does generalization support inference, prediction, and decision making? I propose that a big part of human generalization can be explained by a powerful mechanism of function learning. I put forward and assess Gaussian Process regression as a model of human function learning that can unify several psychological theories of generalization. Across 14...

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Literature Corpus work: 03a74883-0ecc-5dc5-b252-3aae4f1d80d4
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/rzj2m_v1

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