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Subject(s)

• Cognition [Browse]
• Cognitive science [Browse]
• Psychology—Mathematical models [Browse]
• Psychometrics [Browse]

Editor

• Townsend, James T. [Browse]
• Busemeyer, Jerome R. [Browse]

Series

Oxford library of psychology. [More in this series]

Summary note

Offering a comprehensive and authoritative review of important developments in computational and mathematical psychology, this handbook also examines the field's influence on related research areas such as cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, clinical psychology, and neuroscience.

Notes

Description based upon print version of record.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 8, 2015).

Language note

English

Contents

• Cover; The Oxford Handbook of Computational and Mathematical Psychology; Copyright; Dedicated; Short Contents; Oxford Library of Psychology; About the Editors; Contributors; Contents; Preface; 1 Review of Basic Mathematical Concepts Used in Computational and Mathematical Psychology; Part I Elementary Cognitive Mechanisms; 2 Multidimensional Signal Detection Theory; 3 Modeling Simple Decisions and Applications Using a Diffusion Model; 4 Features of Response Times: Identification of Cognitive Mechanisms through Mathematical Modeling; 5 Computational Reinforcement Learning
• Part II Basic Cognitive Skills6 Why Is Accurately Labeling Simple Magnitudes So Hard? A Past, Present, and Future Look at Simple Perceptual Judgment; 7 An Exemplar-Based Random-Walk Model of Categorization and Recognition; 8 Models of Episodic Memory; Part III Higher Level Cognition; 9 Structure and Flexibility in Bayesian Models of Cognition; 10 Models of Decision Making under Risk and Uncertainty; 11 Models of Semantic Memory; 12 Shape Perception; Part IV New Directions; 13 Bayesian Estimation in Hierarchical Models; 14 Model Comparison and the Principle of Parsimony
• 15 Neurocognitive Modeling of Perceptual Decision Making16 Mathematical and Computational Modeling in Clinical Psychology; 17 Quantum Models of Cognition and Decision; Index

Other title(s)

• Handbook of computational and mathematical psychology
• Computational and mathematical psychology

ISBN

• 0-19-023366-4
• 0-19-995800-9

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