Predicting the Future as Bayesian Inference: People Combine Prior Knowledge With Observations When Estimating Duration and Extent

redicting the future is a basic problem that people have to solve every day and a component of planning, decision making, memory, and causal reasoning. In this article, we present 5 experiments testing a Bayesian model of predicting the duration or extent of phenomena from their current state. This...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Griffiths, Thomas L., Tenenbaum, Joshua B.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Psychological Association 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/70990
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1925-2035

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