The Naïve Utility Calculus as a unified, quantitative framework for action understanding

2020/07/29 by Julian Jara-Ettinger, Julian Jara‐Ettinger, Laura E. Schulz +2 · 96 citations
Neuroscience · Psychology · #Action (physics) #Action Observation and Synchronization #Artificial intelligence #Bayesian inference #Bayesian probability #Child and Animal Learning Development #Cognitive psychology #Cognitive science #Computer science #Embodied and Extended Cognition #Epistemology #Frequentist inference #Generative grammar #Generative model #Heuristics #Ignorance #Probabilistic logic #Psychology #Set (abstract data type)

paper · doi:10.1016/j.cogpsych.2020.101334

published in Cognitive Psychology 123, 101334 (Elsevier BV)

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