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2008
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Humor, Abstraction, and Disbelief
bstraction, and Disbelief Elena Hoicka a ; Sarah Jutsum b ; Merideth Gattis b a Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz b School of Psychology, Cardiff Unive...
Elena Hoicka, Sarah Jutsum, Merideth Gattis
COGSCI
2008
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Space Between Languages
What aspects of spatial relations influence speakers' choice of locative? This article presents a study of static spatial descriptions from 24 languages. The study reveals tw...
Michele I. Feist
COGSCI
2008
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The Tractable Cognition Thesis
The recognition that human minds/brains are finite systems with limited resources for computation has led some researchers to advance the Tractable Cognition thesis: Human cogniti...
Iris van Rooij
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2008
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Optimal Predictions in Everyday Cognition: The Wisdom of Individuals or Crowds?
Griffiths and Tenenbaum (2006) asked individuals to make predictions about the duration or extent of everyday events (e.g., cake baking times), and reported that predictions were ...
Michael C. Mozer, Harold Pashler, Hadjar Homaei
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2008
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Exemplars, Prototypes, Similarities, and Rules in Category Representation: An Example of Hierarchical Bayesian Analysis
This article demonstrates the potential of using hierarchical Bayesian methods to relate models and data in the cognitive sciences. This is done using a worked example that consid...
Michael D. Lee, Wolf Vanpaemel