Perceptual estimation obeys Occam's razor

Theoretical models of unsupervised category learning postulate that humans “invent” categories to accommodate new patterns, but tend to group stimuli into a small number of categories. This “Occam's razor” principle is motivated by normative rules of statistical inference. If categories influen...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Gershman, Samuel J., Niv, Yael
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Frontiers Research Foundation 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/82931