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| Type: | Conference paper |
| Title: | Humans use different statistics for sequence analysis depending on the task |
| Author: | Gokaydin, D. Ma-Wyatt, A. Navarro, D. Perfors, A. |
| Citation: | Expanding the Space of Cognitive Science, Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2011 / Carlson, L., Hoelscher, C., Shipley, T. (ed./s), pp.543-548 |
| Publisher: | Cognitive Science Society |
| Publisher Place: | Boston, USA |
| Issue Date: | 2011 |
| ISBN: | 9780976831877 |
| Conference Name: | Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci) (20 Jul 2011 - 23 Jul 2011 : Boston, Massachusetts, USA) |
| Editor: | Carlson, L. Hoelscher, C. Shipley, T. |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Dinis Gökaydin, Anna Ma-Wyatt, Daniel Navarro, Amy Perfors |
| Abstract: | Despite its long history (Luce, 1986) the study of sequential effects has mostly been confined to simple binary tasks such as two-alternative forced choice tasks (2AFC). Here we present experimental results from a choice task with three rather than two alternatives (3AFC) as well as a novel model that can explain them. We find that humans change the statistics they use to analyse a sequence depending on the task constraints, relying on first-order transition probabilities in a 2AFC but event relative frequencies (i.e., zeroth-order transition probabilities) in a 3AFC. |
| Rights: | © the authors |
| Published version: | http://mindmodeling.org/cogsci2011/papers/0100/paper0100.pdf |
| Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 2 Psychology publications |
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