Chater, N;
(2000)
How smart can simple heuristics be?
BEHAV BRAIN SCI
, 23
(5)
745 -746.
10.1017/S0140525X00263449.
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Abstract
This commentary focuses on three issues raised by Gigerenzer, Todd, and the ABC Research Group (1999). First, I stress the need for further experimental evidence to determine which heuristics people use in cognitive judgment tasks. Second, I question the scope of cognitive models based on simple heuristics, arguing that many aspects of cognition are too sophisticated to be modeled in this way. Third, I note the complementary role that rational explanation can play to Gigenerenzer et al.'s "ecological" analysis of why heuristics succeed.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | How smart can simple heuristics be? |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1017/S0140525X00263449 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X00263449 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright 2000 Cambridge University Press |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/124960 |
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