Resource-rational analysis: Understanding human cognition as the optimal use of limited computational resources

F Lieder, TL Griffiths - Behavioral and brain sciences, 2020 - cambridge.org
Modeling human cognition is challenging because there are infinitely many mechanisms
that can generate any given observation. Some researchers address this by constraining the …

Précis of simple heuristics that make us smart

PM Todd, G Gigerenzer - Behavioral and brain sciences, 2000 - cambridge.org
How can anyone be rational in a world where knowledge is limited, time is pressing, and
deep thought is often an unattainable luxury? Traditional models of unbounded rationality …

Advancing the rationality debate

KE Stanovich, RF West - Behavioral and brain sciences, 2000 - cambridge.org
In this response, we clarify several misunderstandings of the understanding/acceptance
principle and defend our specific operationalization of that principle. We reiterate the …

Trading spaces: Computation, representation, and the limits of uninformed learning

A Clark, C Thornton - Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1997 - cambridge.org
Some regularities enjoy only an attenuated existence in a body of training data. These are
regularities whose statistical visibility depends on some systematic recoding of the data. The …

The cognitive bases of human tool use

K Vaesen - Behavioral and brain sciences, 2012 - cambridge.org
This article has two goals. The first is to assess, in the face of accruing reports on the
ingenuity of great ape tool use, whether and in what sense human tool use still evidences …

The quest for optimality: A positive heuristic of science?

PJH Schoemaker - Behavioral and brain sciences, 1991 - cambridge.org
This paper examines the strengths and weaknesses of one of science's most pervasive and
flexible metaprinciples; optimality is used to explain utility maximization in economics, least …

Toward a triarchic theory of human intelligence

RJ Sternberg - Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1984 - cambridge.org
This article is a synopsis of a triarchic theory of human intelligence. The theory comprises
three subtheories: a contextual subtheory, which relates intelligence to the external world of …

Why not the whole iguana?

DC Dennett - Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1978 - cambridge.org
It is argued that the traditional distinction between artificial intelligence and cognitive
simulation amounts to little more than a difference in style of research~ a different ordering in …

Resource-rational decision making

R Bhui, L Lai, SJ Gershman - Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 2021 - Elsevier
Across many domains of decision making, people seem both rational and irrational. We
review recent work that aims to reconcile these apparently contradictory views by modeling …

The comparative psychology of intelligence

EM Macphail - Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1987 - cambridge.org
Recent decades have seen a number of influential attacks on the comparative psychology of
learning and intelligence. Two specific charges have been that the use of distantly related …