… Later, we will argue that the same conclusion also holds for other areas of human cognition.
Extant work has augmented rational models with different kinds of cognitive limitations and …

… the major characteristics of human cognition can be explained as an optimal response, in a
… statistics of the number's use, oblivious to our-"knowledge" about its future use. It is possible …

… human cognition in a more realistic context than typical laboratory studies, asking people to
make predictions about the duration or extent of everyday phenomena such as human … use …

… Later, we will argue that the same conclusion also holds for other areas of human cognition.
Extant work has augmented rational models with different kinds of cognitive limitations and …

… the optimal model that might result from additional cognitive … we conclude that human planners
use highly adaptive planning … specific cognitive mechanisms underlying human planning. …

… -engineering the mind's cognitive strategies by deriving optimal algorithms for a series of …
that human beings face to provide insight into human cognition only to the extent that human …

… representations and algorithms that a person might use while performing a task, but these
… model assumptions and optimal task performances—cognitive scientists better understand …

… Furthermore, our analysis predicts that when the stakes are higher, subjects should use
more samples for a decision, and we found evidence of such optimal meta-cognition in a meta-…

… ments with human participants. We find that people’s reaction times reflect a planned use
of … The optimal partial plans generated by our model explain human responses even when …

… We consider human performance on an optimal stopping problem where … use the modeling
results to discuss the merits of hierarchical, generative and Bayesian models of cognitive …