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Sanborn, Adam N.; Mansinghka, Vikash K.; Griffiths, Thomas L. – Psychological Review, 2013
People have strong intuitions about the influence objects exert upon one another when they collide. Because people's judgments appear to deviate from Newtonian mechanics, psychologists have suggested that people depend on a variety of task-specific heuristics. This leaves open the question of how these heuristics could be chosen, and how to…
Descriptors: Heuristics, Statistical Inference, Mechanics (Physics), Intuition
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Thomas, Michael S. C.; Knowland, Victoria C. P.; Karmiloff-Smith, Annette – Psychological Review, 2011
Loss of previously established behaviors in early childhood constitutes a markedly atypical developmental trajectory. It is found almost uniquely in autism and its cause is currently unknown (Baird et al., 2008). We present an artificial neural network model of developmental regression, exploring the hypothesis that regression is caused by…
Descriptors: Autism, Language Impairments, Prediction, Developmental Stages