| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 262 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-254) and index. |
| Contents |
Prelude: a double inheritance, a single question -- Bayes and bias -- Wish come true -- Fear materialized -- The familiarity fallacy -- The proximity trap -- Less is more -- Utopia -- a world without bias -- Coda: the pleasure of prediction error. |
| Summary |
In this engaging, even lyrical, book, Jan Lauwereyns examines the neural underpinnings of decision-making, using 'bias' as his core concept rather than the more common but noncommittal terms 'selection' and 'attention'. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Neural circuitry -- Mathematical models.
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Neural circuitry -- Mathematical models. |
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Neural circuitry. |
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Decision making -- Physiological aspects.
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Decision making -- Physiological aspects. |
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Decision making. |
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Bayesian statistical decision theory.
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Bayesian statistical decision theory. |
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Neural networks (Neurobiology) -- Mathematical models.
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Neural networks (Neurobiology) -- Mathematical models. |
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Neural networks (Neurobiology) |
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Nerve Net -- physiology. |
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Judgment -- physiology. |
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Models, Theoretical. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Lauwereyns, Jan, 1969- Anatomy of bias. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2010 9780262123105 (DLC) 2009021061 (OCoLC)366494362 |
| ISBN |
9780262277990 (electronic book) |
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0262277999 (electronic book) |
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026212310X (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9780262123105 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
9786612541933 |
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