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.
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Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of description
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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
9780190233662
0190233664
9780199958009
0199958009
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