Asking the right questions about the psychology of human inquiry: Nine open challenges
The ability to act on the world with the goal of gaining information is core to human
adaptability and intelligence. Perhaps the most successful and influential account of such …
adaptability and intelligence. Perhaps the most successful and influential account of such …
Inferring causal networks from observations and interventions
Abstract Information about the structure of a causal system can come in the form of
observational data—random samples of the system's autonomous behavior—or …
observational data—random samples of the system's autonomous behavior—or …
Finding useful questions: on Bayesian diagnosticity, probability, impact, and information gain.
JD Nelson - Psychological review, 2005 - psycnet.apa.org
Abstract [Correction Notice: An erratum for this article was reported in Vol 114 (3) of
Psychological Review (see record 2007-10421-013). In Table 13, the data should indicate …
Psychological Review (see record 2007-10421-013). In Table 13, the data should indicate …
Faster teaching via pomdp planning
Human and automated tutors attempt to choose pedagogical activities that will maximize
student learning, informed by their estimates of the student's current knowledge. There has …
student learning, informed by their estimates of the student's current knowledge. There has …
Sensitivity to sampling in Bayesian word learning
We report a new study testing our proposal that word learning may be best explained as an
approximate form of Bayesian inference (Xu & Tenenbaum, in press). Children are capable …
approximate form of Bayesian inference (Xu & Tenenbaum, in press). Children are capable …
Generalized information theory meets human cognition: Introducing a unified framework to model uncertainty and information search
Searching for information is critical in many situations. In medicine, for instance, careful
choice of a diagnostic test can help narrow down the range of plausible diseases that the …
choice of a diagnostic test can help narrow down the range of plausible diseases that the …
Experience matters: Information acquisition optimizes probability gain
Deciding which piece of information to acquire or attend to is fundamental to perception,
categorization, medical diagnosis, and scientific inference. Four statistical theories of the …
categorization, medical diagnosis, and scientific inference. Four statistical theories of the …
Strategies to intervene on causal systems are adaptively selected
How do people choose interventions to learn about causal systems? Here, we considered
two possibilities. First, we test an information sampling model, information gain, which …
two possibilities. First, we test an information sampling model, information gain, which …
Asymptotic theory of information-theoretic experimental design
L Paninski - Neural Computation, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We discuss an idea for collecting data in a relatively efficient manner. Our point of view is
Bayesian and information-theoretic: on any given trial, we want to adaptively choose the …
Bayesian and information-theoretic: on any given trial, we want to adaptively choose the …
[HTML][HTML] Children's sequential information search is sensitive to environmental probabilities
JD Nelson, B Divjak, G Gudmundsdottir, LF Martignon… - Cognition, 2014 - Elsevier
We investigated 4th-grade children's search strategies on sequential search tasks in which
the goal is to identify an unknown target object by asking yes–no questions about its …
the goal is to identify an unknown target object by asking yes–no questions about its …