Subtracting “ought” from “is”: Descriptivism versus normativism in the study of human thinking

S Elqayam, JSBT Evans - Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2011 - cambridge.org
We propose a critique of normativism, defined as the idea that human thinking reflects a
normative system against which it should be measured and judged. We analyze the …

Advancing theorizing about fast-and-slow thinking

W De Neys - Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2023 - cambridge.org
Human reasoning is often conceived as an interplay between a more intuitive and deliberate
thought process. In the last 50 years, influential fast-and-slow dual-process models that …

Reciprocal relations between cognitive neuroscience and formal cognitive models: opposites attract?

BU Forstmann, EJ Wagenmakers, T Eichele… - Trends in cognitive …, 2011 - cell.com
Cognitive neuroscientists study how the brain implements particular cognitive processes
such as perception, learning, and decision-making. Traditional approaches in which …

The expressive rationality of inaccurate perceptions

DM Kahan - Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 2015 - papers.ssrn.com
This comment uses the dynamic of identity-protective cognition to pose a friendly challenge
to Jussim (2012). The friendly part consists of an examination of how this form of information …

Computational rationality: A converging paradigm for intelligence in brains, minds, and machines

SJ Gershman, EJ Horvitz, JB Tenenbaum - Science, 2015 - science.org
After growing up together, and mostly growing apart in the second half of the 20th century,
the fields of artificial intelligence (AI), cognitive science, and neuroscience are reconverging …

Why humans are cognitive misers and what it means for the great rationality debate

KE Stanovich - Routledge handbook of bounded rationality, 2020 - taylorfrancis.com
The perspective of bounded rationality provides a corrective to idealized conceptions of
rationality, which pose notorious explanatory problems for cognitive science. This chapter …

Whatever next? Predictive brains, situated agents, and the future of cognitive science

A Clark - Behavioral and brain sciences, 2013 - cambridge.org
Brains, it has recently been argued, are essentially prediction machines. They are bundles
of cells that support perception and action by constantly attempting to match incoming …

Building machines that learn and think like people

BM Lake, TD Ullman, JB Tenenbaum… - Behavioral and brain …, 2017 - cambridge.org
Recent progress in artificial intelligence has renewed interest in building systems that learn
and think like people. Many advances have come from using deep neural networks trained …

A framework for the unification of the behavioral sciences

H Gintis - Behavioral and brain sciences, 2007 - cambridge.org
The various behavioral disciplines model human behavior in distinct and incompatible ways.
Yet, recent theoretical and empirical developments have created the conditions for …

Rational use of cognitive resources: Levels of analysis between the computational and the algorithmic

TL Griffiths, F Lieder… - Topics in cognitive …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Marr's levels of analysis—computational, algorithmic, and implementation—have served
cognitive science well over the last 30 years. But the recent increase in the popularity of the …