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Direct linkCrupi, Vincenzo; Nelson, Jonathan D.; Meder, Björn; Cevolani, Gustavo; Tentori, Katya – Cognitive Science, 2018
Searching for information is critical in many situations. In medicine, for instance, careful choice of a diagnostic test can help narrow down the range of plausible diseases that the patient might have. In a probabilistic framework, test selection is often modeled by assuming that people's goal is to reduce uncertainty about possible states of the…
Descriptors: Information Theory, Cognitive Processes, Information Seeking, Probability
