How a cognitive psychologist came to seek universal laws
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From Universal Laws of Cognition to Specific Cognitive Models
The remarkable successes of the physical sciences have been built on highly general quantitative laws, which serve as the basis for understanding an enormous variety of specific physical systems. How far is it possible to construct universal principles in the cognitive sciences, in terms of which specific aspects of perception, memory, or decision making might be modelled? Following Shepard (e....
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عنوان ژورنال: Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
سال: 2004
ISSN: 1069-9384,1531-5320
DOI: 10.3758/bf03206455