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