On the origins of suboptimality in human probabilistic inference.

Humans have been shown to combine noisy sensory information with previous experience (priors), in qualitative and sometimes quantitative agreement with the statistically-optimal predictions of Bayesian integration. However, when the prior distribution becomes more complex than a simple Gaussian, suc...

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Main Authors: Luigi Acerbi, Sethu Vijayakumar, Daniel M Wolpert
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-06-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/24945142/pdf/?tool=EBI