Do humans make good decisions?. Issue 1 (January 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Summerfield, Christopher; Tsetsos, Konstantinos
• Is Part Of: Trends in cognitive sciences. Volume 19:Issue 1(2015)
• Page Start: 27
• Page End: 34
• Publication Date: 2015-01
• Subjects: Cognitive science -- Periodicals; Cognitive neuroscience -- Periodicals; 153.05
• DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2014.11.005
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1364-6613

Abstract

<abstract abstract-type="author-highlights" id="abs0005"> <title id="sect0005">Highlights</title> <sec> <p id="spar0005"> <list id="lis0005"> <list-item id="lsti0005"> <label></label> <p id="par0005">Perceptual and economic decisions approach optimality when the environment is stable.</p> </list-item> <list-item id="lsti0010"> <label></label> <p id="par0010">Humans making decisions about variable visual information use suboptimal strategies.</p> </list-item> <list-item id="lsti0015"> <label></label> <p id="par0015">Visual feature information may be represented efficiently during categorisation.</p> </list-item> <list-item id="lsti0020"> <label></label> <p id="par0020">Efficient coding may explain departures from optimality in variable environments.</p> </list-item> </list> </p> </sec> </abstract>