Bayesian models of cognition revisited: Setting optimality aside and letting data drive psychological theory

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<p>Recent debates in the psychological literature have raised questions about the assumptions that underpin Bayesian models of cognition and what inferences they license about human cognition. In this paper we revisit this topic, arguing that there are 2 qualitatively different ways in which a Bayesian model could be constructed. The most common approach uses a Bayesian model as a normative standard upon which to...

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• Cognition
• Eye Movements
• Models, Statistical
• Probability
• Proportional Hazards Models
• Psychomotor Performance
• Reaction Time
• Vision, Ocular

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Literature Corpus work

5fa1147b-8cbe-5642-bcd0-96e97eefeba3

DOI

10.31234/osf.io/25gcm