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Griffiths, Thomas L.; Lewandowsky, Stephan; Kalish, Michael L. – Cognitive Science, 2013
Information changes as it is passed from person to person, with this process of cultural transmission allowing the minds of individuals to shape the information that they transmit. We present mathematical models of cultural transmission which predict that the amount of information passed from person to person should affect the rate at which that…
Descriptors: Culture, Information Dissemination, Mathematical Models, Prediction
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Craig, Stewart; Lewandowsky, Stephan; Little, Daniel R. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2011
The assumption in some current theories of probabilistic categorization is that people gradually attenuate their learning in response to unavoidable error. However, existing evidence for this error discounting is sparse and open to alternative interpretations. We report 2 probabilistic-categorization experiments in which we investigated error…
Descriptors: Evidence, Feedback (Response), Associative Learning, Classification